The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-07 00:00:00

ALCOA BAY.

We annex an extract of a letter written by one
of the new settlers at Algoa Bay. There will be found several
inconsistencies, which we do not pretent to reconcile, in the
writer's statements, but it is obvtous that the prospects in that
settlement, which proved so disastrous to those who first ven-
tured thither, are materially improving.
" Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, June 18, 1824.

" We are now becoming in some degree settled here, and the
colony is so far improved, that none who now come out would
incur any riskof encountering the difficulties we met with at first.
The way is now paved, and persons with moderate views and a
capital of five hundred pounds would soon become independent.
For labourersin particular, greatadvantages present themselves,
and the people of that class already here really feel themselves
of so much importance, that they are, in demeanour at least,
like the nobility of the country. Though I pay them very
high wages, I am compelled to use urgent intreatics to get any
thing done; and at this moment, so important a person is our
cobler, I can neither get a pair of shoes mended for love nor
money. The only drawback on the labouring class is the '
heat ofthe middle of the day for about four months. The
cautious Dutch sleep in the middle of the day, but the English
labourers spend their time in drinking, and are, therefore,
generally, incorrigible drunkards. Printing is at present
prohibited here; but we expect that the next arrivals from
England will bring out an order to remove that prohibition.
Indeed, the obstacles to improvement here are 80 temporary
that they are hardly worth alluding to. Almost all the in-
dividuals here who are in authority are half-pay officers, and
very far from sagacious in what concerns the management
of an infant colony. You may take a specimen of their
political sagacity. `ire have but one butcher in Port Eliza-
beth : another butcher applied to the Land-drost (a Colonel)
for permission to begin business, but this officer told him he
did not see any occasion for two butchers. The climate here
is better than at Cape Town, and for my own part I had
rather settle my Gray in the country than in a large town.
I should do very well indeed, if I thought only of myself,
and not of making provision for my family, whom I long
andstraining a
to have with me; but tremble at the risk of placing them
here, until I have a home fit for their reception. I tun,
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got, my land
at considerable cost, and have built some small houses for
the accommodation of the workmen. I ant now projecting
the building a good house for myself, which I hope to be
) toa
able to accomplish for the small sum of 150/. I have at pre-
sentffrroolnlti producelAtecne otifilmnye laaru
September, my
nothing but out-goings, and have derived no benefit yet
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one man at work, and have sometimes employed several.—
Clothes are excessively dear. My flock of sheep and goats
have greatly diminished, anti we have not sufficient shelter for
cattle in the rainy season, and from this cause I lost lately
three cows out of ten. You will say I have not managed badly
to get on as I have. I have five horses, a chaise, and cart;
but I have never had a ride in my chaise, although I brought
it with me front Cape-town, for 1 can get no servant to wait
upon me. The necessaries of life, however, are 'extremely
cheap. If you cannot get roast beef in England, come here
and you will have your surloin at twopence per lb.; besides
which you will have grapes, peaches, melons, Sze., anti wine
for about 3d. a bottle. We hope for a free trade here, and no
military superintendence. We are all true John Bulls, and
hope to have the Covent-garden election one day or other."--
(Times.)

It appears that the late invitation of the Pre-
Went BOYER to the free coloured people of the United States
to emigrate to Hayti has been accepted by numbers. The fol-
lowing is one, amongst several notices upon the subject, which
appear in the New York Papers Sixty adult negroes and
some children have just embarked on board the Charlotte
Corde, bound to Hayti. A multitude of coloured people are
looking on ; all seem to approve of the plan. We are told that
four hundred more have engaged to sail front this port."—
(Democratic Press.)
STORM IN AllNOllCA.—(Barcelona, Sept. 20.)—We learn
from Mahon, in the island of Majorca, that horrible ravages
had been occasioned by a typhon on the 31st of August, and
particularly in Santa-Eularia, Santa-Eularcita, San &rani,
and the parts adjacent ; the roofs of the houses were blown off,
walls torn down, and the vines, with a number of other trees,
torn up by the roots. In short, it is impossible at present
to calculate on the damage which has been occasioned by
the violence of the typhon in its progress from south to
north. But the disaster did not end here,—a heavy ram fell
during the night of the 3d and •Ith of September, and in such
abundance that several houses and magazines in the city were
completely inundated. At day-break the ruins thus occasioned
presented a frightful spetacle; the gardens in the plain of St.
Julian were completely under water, and their produce was
entirely destroyed. This horrible tempest was accompanied
by violent wind, claps of thunder, flashes of lightning, and
hailstones of an enormous size. At the time of the departure
of the courier, no intelligence had been received from the inte.
rior of the island : the floods had rendered the roads impass.
able, and it is not doubted that great losses had been sustained
on the plain of Favm kb. This storm took the same direction
as the tempest of the 31st of August, from south to north.
About the village of Millbrook, a considerable
sect named Bryanites or Brianites, has lately sprung up, whose
teachers and leading men claim not only the power of casting
out devils, but pretend to
.possess a still more dangerous
power—the power of seeing into the future world, and ascer-
taining the lot of the inmates thereof. In the applica-
tion of this power, they of course see all those who think
as they think, in Paradise, while all those who do not
belong to their persuasion, or who, after having been
joined to them, leave their association, are seen amidst
hell torments, by which means the simple arc gained and the
doubting alarmed, and bound to their creed. Some distressing
instances of the effects of these anathemas have occurred. In
the midst of their religious meetings they are caught in trances,
when males and females are all huddled together and thrown
into a dark cellar, where they remain till a spirit moves them.
One of the fraternity having fallen dangerously ill, his wife,
not one of them sent for the clergyman of the parish to visit
him, and read the prayers for the sick by him. This the
clergyman, a very worthy man, went readily to perform ; but,
upon his arrival at the house, he was opposed front entrance
by a man, decent in appearance, judging from his dress, who
assured him that he was too late ; that all was over, and the
devil dislodged front the sick man. I saw him (the devil) my-
self, said the Brianite pastor, come out of the man, pass through
this window, fly over the house, and over the adjoining heights, to
his proper abode ; and my brother, added he, is now watching
at the bedside of the defunct, lest Satan return by stealth and
enter him again. The clergyman, notwithstanding every effort
made to get into the house, believing the man to be as he
really was, still alive, was compelled to give up the attempt,
and next day, before he returned, the poor man had actually
expired-L-(Edinburgh courant.)
%Ve are happy to learn, on the authority of a
manufacturer residing there, and himself employ-
ing two hundred workmen, that the Spitalfields
trade has never been in a more prosperous state
than it is at the present ; and that so far from the
workmen having, as has been stated, " to deplore
the loss of their former privileges" by the repeal
of the Act which regulated their wages, it has
been a great benefit to them, as they tire actually
paid now fifteen per cent. more for some articles
than the law allowed them ; and there is not a
single loom idle for 'want of employ.
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other of his dogs, cats, and other animals. As ho
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was making the codicil, one of the cats jumped
on his knee : 44 What," said he, 't have you it
mind to be a witness too ? You can't, for you
are a party concerned.
The late Rev. Mr. Neil, one of the Ministers
of the West Church, when taking a walk in the
afternoon, saw an old woman sitting by the road-
side, evidently much intoxicated, with her bundle
lying before her in the mud. He immediately
recognized her to be one of his parishioners.
" Will you just help me up with my bundle,
gudeman P' said she, as he stopped. 46 Fie, fie,
Janet," said the pastor, 44 to see the like o' you
In such a plight. Do you know where all drunk-
ards go to ?" 44 Aye, sure," said Janet, 44 they
just go whar a drap o' gude drink is to be got."—
(Scotch Paper.)