The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-18 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

That full and precise information, in regard to the
Colony above-mentioned, is wanted by the public at
large, at a time when a pecuniary grant of the House
of Commons, and the intimations of his Majesty's
Government, have turned the thoughts of multitudes
to emigrating in that direction, will not be denied ;
and this want is the more apparent from the fact,
that amid the meagre, though in some instances,
sufficiently boastful coutributions, which, on the spur
of the occasion, the press has hitherto offered, none
but the tier side of the picture has been exhibited ;
no discriminating hand has been stretched forth, to
svarate the bud from the good, nor no warning
voice litied up, to forbid unfounded expectations,
nor prevent improvident adventure. His Majesty's
G3vernmeut has proposed emigration to the Cape of
Good Hope, and immediately the press has seemed
anxious only to stimulate the appetite for the under-
taking, without reference either to the diiliculties or
the evils to be encountered abroad, or to the mis-
takes, and even the frauds, which are to be appre-
hended at home.

The features of less agreeable appearance, which
the intended English settler should contemplate, be-
fore he resolves on departure for the Cape, and
especially before he enters into uny engagements to
that end, are not few, and shall here, in part, be se-
verally, though briefly, pointed out.
I. Too volt G Elie dangers of a passage, in a crow-
ded ship, across the equator, to the southward of it, iu the.
summer (Nuvember, December, uud Jauuar)), must
mot be overlooked.

2. Cc ATE —SoMething 100 anlelt has probably been
generally said concerning the excellence of the climate of
the Cape of Goad Hope, especially in reference to the bodily
and mental carillons of Europeans placed coder its influence.
3. LaIOUR.—AII the lebour, at present perforated in the
Colony, proceeds f-en persons of either Hottentot
servants, or Malay or African slaves. This fact is of
I moortanee in an infinity of views.
4. Wttite LaßOVltaas.—lt is by no means certain
that Europrau constitutions are physically cumpettut to
the performance of bodily labour at the Cape I but, inde-
pendently of this doubt, there exists inure Hein one moral
difficulty In the nay'. In all regrocultu al setileruents, in all
toiletries where the quantity of land mid spontaneuus pro-
dects of nature overbalance the population, bodily labour
in peculiar contempt; at the Cape of Good Hope it is
known to be undeniably so. The whites do nothing. Every
white man, however poor, and however wretched, prefeis
the endurance of those evils to labour, and especially to m. 0.-
Thus, a layout iog man in England, coutinoing to
he labouring man at the Cape, will feud the hardship of his
lot considerably aggravated.
5 CAPITAL.— the pi ice of labour at the Cape, whether
pectinated by slaves or by free persons, is exceedingly high—
a consideration of great importance to the capitalist. If
inch an tmeeisould attempt to remedy the evil, by carrying
indented labourers from .his country, the circumstances
referred to in the preceding paragraph will 'evolve him in
endlrss trouble. The labourers will find, ut or soon after
t liver arrivals. that they have signed to what they in u.i
respect uederstornl; they will aspire to be masters, they
a ill drowse rt strata, and they will prefer living with the
Intientois or Caffics, iu a state of independence, to living
a ith their brother Europeans in a state of servitude.
6. I.Antis.—Many didiculties will present themselves to
capitals's, in (hi ohtaining of lands suitable in point of
uluatiau,and sant:km in point of extent; thlficiii.ies for
which the state of the surface, and the character of the
limate in England, can in no wise have prepared them;
but when (as it is said to be the case) uofartunate and iglu"-
taxi permit's ruder themselves to be indented, in this country,
for three or four years' service, ut the price of loci iving
Eventrfi:•e °crag of land at the end of the term, nu winds
can express w ith saiicient strength, the grossness of the int-
p,grit Twenty•five acres of lead, to the Coltny of the
Cape of Good Hope, must, in almost every case be worth
omitting al all. 'toe pceeni," says a circular letter of
Earl Bathurst, " under a ti ,se directiou a party of settlers
proceeds, is at liberty to secure their services by any legal
agreement 111111 which they may tlank proper to enter.”—
T his ptragraph miasma:Oily points to a system of a hic h
many 'gum ant speculator', and some bad minds, will certainly
take advan age. We have already heard in England, of
reillemptiutien and white slaves in the United States of
America. We sh JI 'low hear of them at the Cape of tiood
Mope. These " legal oereemems" ail: be hound crud',
°pole-sive; the servants will a, from their contracts, and
the appeal a ill he to—Dutch Isia s. 116 MajCl.Ws Da-
Vetotticia, so tar from lending Its counterman c ill these
.5
legal ape.. moos," ought to provide equaali.e relief for the
deluded victims of them, by proposing to l'arliaineut a Bill
for rendertug null amid void all contract, for service within
the Coloity of the Cape ut tiood Hope, either forma' y or
•irtually centered init., by any person, not tieing a waive of
the Cape, eit her in Europe, or elsee here, at allly time o Blau
two moths after hts first arrival at the Pape; prnvidtd
ilia if, 111 pursuance of any stub contract, any
tervive 'di ill have been actually performed, then one set vain
shall br elditled to receive under it a propurtioual part of
st imitated reward.
7. Ways titaCTll.—Want of market+, and of
means of conveyaace to market, form whittler subject fur
the serious cousid.•. atom of the captalist ; and these evils,
to whatever cause they may be 111Vilit, are confessed to
prevail a: the Cape of (Mad Hope. lier.•, too, it seem"
proper to ult.erve, that th CI :111011111,T sourer. of the inactiiiti,
and other cott•elittent c ,uses of tae tidal 01.11 1.1 11. ca, far
which the Coliniaas are sa !omit, blamed, a ill, there is too
much 1C.111./11 1n lea, be found equa). to uppii•-,Fogiishinen,
and ultimately to produce a L.n a psi thin of snai.l.., ty 111
the character and tonaltlei of th • !•• .111ei•, uI whitt t'.•l' .atom.
Let ith ad led. tivit in aticithir Sio•emi'at clie natural feu,
lily erne soil 11. elllll.llt. 01' 1.1.' /u.) kind, a hint.
radial! 1/11_11( In be ill. 41111111.1 tor v.•,) little.
except *Moe the., ire a: dilated 1,. a a. 111:,a1.1.
8.--1•ANGI: ALL'S A\l) IA 41r 'IIIN PHI SE•r
COLO:111bl Ile.. •"111.•1.. ea on a t sores 10 hold no,-mm'
happiner., nor even todependent ta.•
present Colouots. nese are foreigners, wlw speak Otis
owe laiszuage, possess their own utouaers, am' profess
,w it

zeal, their own religion. They have overspread the country,
though thinly their numbers are fast increasing; they sire
lookin.: out for lands for their sous and daughters; their
interests are opposite to those of the new Settlers; they
have betaight down upon the Colony the animosity of two
uncivilized oa ions, and this situatioo of things enters into
the whole compositiose of their allies'. The Dutch and 1,
Germain languages must be learned by the new Settlers,
which latter must become Dutch and Gemini' themselves I
for it would contradict all experience to expect that the
imitation will take place on the slde of the old inhabitants
and the majority, instead of that of the new inhabitants
and the minority. —Mr. Burchell, a writer who describes
himself as having travelled in the back country of the Cape,
proptises to obviate some of these objections, by collecting
the English Settlers in a separate ...immunity, on the hanks of
of the Sea-cow River ; but that country, in which Mr. Bur-
then, as lie informs us, fuuud only inoffensive and friendly
natives, cannot he approached but through a region, which
the Dutch have been obliged to abandon, on account of the
hostilities of the exasperated Rosjesmans.
9. Hose. arr v or THE NATITEI6--That part of the
Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, which, in other respects,
lutist be moat eligible for the reception of the English
Settlers, ai.d to which the views of his Nlajesty's Government
(influenced, as it is probable, as well as by local , as
by home banianit ) are reportid to be turned, is exposed. to
the ravages of the Cadres on the East, and of the !hairs-
mans, or wild Hottentots, on the North. The colonial
quarrels with these two nations are nut green, sold such its
must be expected every where, between foreign colonists
and the natives of the ; but are the growth of yea s, and
eusanguined and embittered by long series of reciprocal
hat borates. of the perpetratton anal provocation of 'stitch
the New Settlers are equally innocent, but of which they
must bear the cousequeeces.
10. GOV SR N lINNT AND LAWS —lf every other objec-
tion were removed, there Mould still remain one, of some
magnitude, obeli the question reJirils the removal of En-
glishmen, into a country where the fot in of Government a--
lows of nothing hoc w its English liberties, itli•l
where the laws, whether better or worse, are, for tile most
part, wholly different from those under which thes nave
Moro mut bred. The Cape has no house of titeembis, Ilt)
freedom of the press, our no teal by jury; nu consent of
the governed to leas either of pollee or of revenue I hough
swayed by the British sceptre, it participates neither in
the British constitut , nor in the British laas.• Sonic of
its laws, the diversity of %bah, f the ISt itieh, is here
spoken of, come home to toe most ordinary lei:blews of
life, and press for the exaininati tttt of every endiselyal.
The laws of marriage and divot cc ore of this number. Di-
!Forces are obtainable for causes unheard of in this ruuatry ;
sod it is open to unprincipled emigrant mob/Inds, having
first removed their wives to the Cape, to obtain divorces
upon the most unexpected grounds. Thu,„ in all our views
of the Cape—of the construction of its society, as well as of
the quality of its soil and climate ; —of its language, man-
ners, religion, government and laws;—it is a foreign t our-
, try, and not merely a distant portion ut English territory—
an English colony, such as the what/rated doubtlessly es•
teem it; and to crown all, this foreign country is the actual
theatre of foreign and ferocious wars,—wail to the origin of
which, Englishmen have neither given nor received injury,
sod io the conclusiou of which their hearts are without
interest.
11, TIMM Or D ttttt one FIAOSI THIS COUSITRTir
It remains only to take ounce of a part of the arrangements
of his Alirjesty'a Government, concerning abash it seems
difficult to other au explanation, and the inipo Dente of
a hich, nevertheless, is of the highest order; for if the Cape
really possessed every allurement, mid were accompanied
by nosubject lor hesitation, will, the proper season for em-
barkation fur it would be entitled to the most Plitt'''. regard.
In a postcript to the printed letter which appears to have
been the first, circulated from Downing-street, it is said
that " in order to ihsure the arrival of the Settlers, at the
Cape, at the beginning of the planting season, the
Uaos-
ports will nut leave this country till the month of Novem-
ber." Now, the seasons of the year, as will be seen fr
more than one statemeot contained io the Co.onial Journal,
Ni.. IV. as well us other sources of infurinalwo, are, at the
Cape of Good Hope, the exact opposite of those iu Eugland.
The English autumn is Use Cape spring. The voyage to
the Cape is estimated at three mouths; and ships, wiling
from this country iii the bee •cg sit November, are there-
fore to be expected to reach the Cape in the beg gof
February; that es, at the season hf droughts and ba.remiess,
and not at the planting betoths. The spa sag plautiog ftUSUII
at the Cape, begins ait h September, and Settlers, to arrive
at the Cape at that time, ought to leave this t ountry in the
beginnieg of June: for proofs, consult the comparative
'Fable of the Seasons, and the Cape of timid Hope Iturtil
Calendar, contained iu the Colonial Journal, No. IV but,
for further proof, hear the words of alr. Bartow, in hi.
Pr. five to his 'Travels into the interior Of Southern Africa.
The passage comprises, besides, some qualifying remarks
on the general character of the Cape, in respect of its ve-
getable riches:—" lit the instance of the Cape, us in most
other cases, we may probably discover the tt uth to he in
the widdlr, It offers nothing very peculiar, either int he
productive qualay of tee soil, or HI tits sterility. %% here
there is moisture, the a unlit It of the climate rt. 1111 l tes ve-
geta! 11l witimut the preparation of an to titicial soil, by
the aid of c posts or immures: hence, one trop of grain
in the year may be procured from the shallowest sail, anti
event from sheer mild. But, nefot tuoately for tile country,
in the hottest mouths of the year, limn the beginning of De-
cember to the cad of ,Ilareh, reset sometimes is the midale of
.Ipril, there SCritalgjalls a single shower of rain. hi these
months the veraure totally disappears; wad the %Mule Sariace
the country presents to the tae, cult r large trail.
a hue sand, ousted with blialsrlleal berths anal other sitiubs,
struggling, as it were, to maintain tic: living p. Mewls , to
regi c..vere anti that brown 5:60) Ilse, is a1114:11 au
angry poet, %jib Mille at it than
„ill-lice., has dressed the
an. face of that part of oui island to the Mau.% aid of the
't aced :

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g in re..et, lively greLii.'"

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plat a., Phil Ihrt ore, look tat: sandy oarlatr utt al N hi. I.
they rOW, chlurei) bar, of any li,od of arias, Nud debtitute
of that verdant turf which is so distiuguishing is feature of our

QUAR

368,941

Quarters ended 10th Oct. Increase as, Decrease as
' compared compared
1818. 1819. I with 1818. with DSOs.
--
Customs .f; 3,669,754 £ 2,75.3,1671
Excise. 5,8660504 5.674,687
Stamps 1,672,165 1,375,437
Post-office.... ' 560,i5i0 375,4.1110 £15,000
Assess. Taxes 787,426 781,4.11,
Land Taxes . 11,1,801 198,177 16,371;
31iscalaiit.s3. 49,150 77,628 28,478 ,
--.l—s---,—.
12,387,1(10 11,433,544 59.854 !1,211,410

Decrease as

Di.duct I

with the

59,K

1818' 1,151,8%

C.IIILILII'S

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—Perceiving in it morning paper, that my name is
introiluied in a manner calculated to lead the public In
believe that l was instrumental to framing the defence of
31r. Carlite, on his trial for publishing Paine's " Age of
Iteasins," you will oblige Noe by affording your readers an
opportunity of knowing the true state of Hie case. Having
been present in Court, as un auditor, I was earnestly solici-
ted at the close of the second day by several friends to the
liberty of the press, to point out, in conjunction with two
literary gentlemen, Hate authors who hail written the most
ably in d.•fence of toleration, and unrestricted freedom of
°pima, im religions subjects, and to mark the passages.
Unit I as►euted to; nor d, I apprehend that such a request
a mild have been refuted by any liberal-minded Wall, ot•
that the most scrupulous would lipid fault with me for having
act; jested in it. I accordingly arranged, alio, as well as I
could is a few hours,' he nest morning, connected a series of
quotatio Ili from Archbishop Tillotson, Hastily squire, fir.
urneaus, Bishop Watson, Proletsor Limbach, l'rufi•s«.r
ampbell, Jlr. Locke, Hr. linlield, the Rev Mr. %%.
else Rev. Mr. Aspland, the Christian Reins 'tier, and other
authorities of equal a ri_ki and tendency. 1 nes ma. read
by Mi. Cathie, on the third day, with initrisolations of his
own; and tla s, with the loan of Entsuni3, i, toll's A reopa-
gitica, Delituiw on Nonconformity, a volume of Black-
stone, a tract by Lord S 00000 and a few se:110114 and
pamphlets, sr inisiiiuted the whole of my exertions ins this
ex tratirdivary sicration.
I um, Sir, your obedient servant,
W ILL! AM HONE.
43, Ludgate-hill, October 13.

C-Jrlile, the bookseller, resided about two years ago.
tlie Coloomide, Bron,wiek-,miare, at which lima
tie w.ts a jourtleyntat Minim, and way 50 miserably
pour, that fie was then receiving telief how the patistt
of St. Gilt miu.threlields.

OCT. 18:

FROM TUESDAY NIGIIT'N GAZETTE.
—*-
By Ids Royal Ilighneu the Prince of t 1 ales. Ra:µ•nt of the
Coifed Kingdom o. Great Britain and Ireland, in the uam and
*utile behalf of has Majesty,
A I'IIOCLA NI AT lON,,

Gconne, P. It.
Whereas the Parliament stands I rorogued to Tuesday, the
ed day m November next. We, in the name and ton the behallof
his Majesty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy
Counuit. ea) hereby publish and declare, that the said Parlhmient
shall be further prorogued on the said Yd day of November to
Tuesday the x3d day of the said month; and we have given
order to the Lord High Chancellor of that pat of the United
Kingdom of Gnat Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, to
prepare a commission for pi °roguing the saute accordiny,ly. Arid
tee do further le.reby, in the name and on the behalt of his
Majesty, and by and with the advice afutesaid, publish arid
declare, that the said Parliament shall, on the 13d day of
November next, be held and sit for the despatch of divers urgent
and important abitirs; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, :Ma the Commis-
sioners fur Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are
hereby required and commanded to give their attendance
accordingly, at Westminster, on the said 25d day of November
next.
Given at the Court at Carlton—house, the I lilt day of October.
Irstio, in the 59th year of his Majesty's reign,
601) SAVE THE KING.

At the Court at Carlton How*, the 11th of October. present.
hi. Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council. His Ho, al
I aving been pleased, in the name and on the belialt of
his Majesty, to appoint the Right Hon. George Hatry, Earl of
Suiniiind and Warrington, to be Lord Lieutenant of the county
of Chester, and of the city of Chester and county of the same, his
Lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon,
instead of the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.