The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-08 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
CENTRAL
AMERICAN LAND AND EMIGRATION COMPANY

DIRECTORS.

Edw. Parkins, Esq., Chairman Alexander Oswald, Esquire,
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Thomas Reynolds, Esq. Thomas Reynolds, Jun., Esq.

SECRETARY,
Mr. Thomas M4William.
SANKERS,
Messrs. Wright and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden.
SOLICITOR,
R. R. Gargravc, Esq„.l9, Buckingham-street, Strand..

Lowrox OFricx, 32, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street.

The CostrANY being possessed of a healthy and fertile dis-
trict in Central America, between the navigable rivers Tinto
and Plaintain, within fifty days' sail of the British Channel, and
under an indisputable title from the Chief of the State, who is
protected by the British Government, are enabled to offer to
the Public grants of Land therein, represented by the Com-
pany's Certificates, on a plan posse sing all the benefits without
any of the disadvantages of a Lottery, Portions of Land, in
addition to the Acres represented by the Certificates, are se-
cured to every Purchaser; the investment must therefore be
safe to all, and will be to many productive of the most pro-
fitable results. The average passage to the Colony is now 50
days sail, when the Mail Steam-packets are placed on the
West India Station, which will be early next year, it will
only be 21 days. This must greatly increase the value of the
property now offered to the public.

PLAN.
Country Land. Town Land.
Acres. Acres. Acres.
4 Locations of 1,500 and 100 each 6,400
8 ditto 1,000 ... 50 ... 8,400
16 ditto 500 ... '2O ... 8,320
32 ditto 200 ... 10 ... 6,720
64 ditto 100 ... 5 ...
128 ditto 25 ... 2 ... 3,456
800 ditto 20 .. 16,000
18,945 ditto 5 . 94,740

20,000 Locations

150,/56

20,000 Land Certificates of Ten Acres 200,000
.20,000 Portions of Towa and Country Land 150,756

Total Acres ... 350,756

EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE PLAN.

20,000 Certificates, each securing to the purchaser ten
Acres of Land, to be issued to the Public. To every Certifi-
cate will belong one of the above 20,000 portions of reserved
Land, ♦ar)ing from 1,500 to five Acres. To 252 of these—
Sections of Town Land, varying from 100 to 2 Acres are at-
tached—in the whole 2,016 Acres. The value of this Town
Land is estimated at £lO per Acre, at which price the Com-
pany engage to purchase the whole or any part thereof, of those
who may obtain it, and payment will be made on demand, the
sum of £20,160 being set apart far that purpose, and as an en-
couragement to emigration, and the establishment of the Co.
lony.
The order of choice for these advantages to be determined
by Lot, on the 29th of September next, this mode having been
hitherto adopted with satisfaction to the Public by other Lewd
Companies.

LAND CERTIFICATES, X 6 EA :a.
The Company may also be treated with fo: sections of land
of not less than 100 acres, independent '.:g the above reserves.
The possessors of the Company's :end will be conveyed to the
Colony at a moderate expense, 1:. being the intention of the Di-
rectors to put on first-
el.ass vessels for that purpose, at the
Liverpool, Hull, Greenock, Dublin,
Ports of London, Bris!,i,
dCork.

N.B.—Picots of respectability wishing to become Agents
to the Co;dpany, must apply to the Secretary for farther parti-
culars. References Will be required.

The Directors beg to refer the Public to the following ex-
tracts, which prove that the proposed Colony possesses in cli-
mate, soil, and locality for trade, all that can insure comfort and
prosperity to the emigrant :
" Every variety of ranimal and vegetable nature for use or
beauty,' or food er luxury, has been most liberally bestowed
on this country. It is everywhere plentifully watered; and the
soil is almost every where fertile in a very uncommon degree,
and capable of producing in the utmost perfection whatever is
produced between the tropics. The cotton bush, the cocoa, or
chocolate nut, and venelloes flourish spontaneously all over the
country. Indigo, too, is a native, and appears to be of the
same sort with that of the neighbouring prov►nce of Gautimal,
which is accounted the best of any. '1 he sugar-cane arrives
here to as great perfection as in any of the islands ; and the
quantity of mahogany and sarsaparilla annually exported from
hence to Great Britain, renders the settlement already an ob-
ject of no small importance in the scale of her commerce and
navigation. The rivers and coasts abound with excellentfish ; and
the finest turtle, both for food and shell, is found here in greater
plenty than in any part of the known world. To which it may
be added—and it is a circumstance of no Mall utility in an in-
fant settlement, that the mouths of many of the principal
rivers produce a prodigious quantity of oysters, both of the
mangrove and flat species ; of the latter sort there are banks
that appear inexhaustible : so that with respect to food, the in-
habitants of this country seem almost to be exempted from the
curse entailed upon our first parents."—Edward's History of the
West Indies. Vol. V. _ . .

Captain Speer, an .old West India Trader, after giving a
similar description of the country, says, " this is a small sketch
of one of the finest and healthiest tracts of country in the
world. It hath been in the possession of his Britannic
Majesty's subjects upwards of ono hundred and thirty years ;
and is the only retreat for our people cutting Legwood in the
Bay of Honduras. If encouraged it will be a valuable settle-
ment, and not liable to the ill consequences which change of
climates have upon the European constitutions. The reason
for which may, in a great degree, be attributed, first, to the
wholesome effect of the turtle and fish, and, secondly, to the
temperature of the air, though so far to the southward, as the
latitude from 16 to 10 N., but be the cause what it may, ex-
perience attests that men usually live to a greater age than in
Europe. "—West India Pilot.
Captain Wright, senior officer of his Majesty's naval force at
Honduras, in a dispatch addressed in the year 1808 to Lord
Castlereagh, then Colonial Secretary, uses the following forci-
ble language in reference to this country :—" Any description
I can give will fall very far short of the actual fact, either as to
the produce of the country, or the disposition and sincere affec-
tion of the inhabitants towards the British nation. No coun-
try enjoys more advantages from water carriage; for, besides
nineteen rivers, which are navigable for small craft up to the
very interior, a chain of lagoons line the coast, accessible at the
mouths of different rivers. The climate is mild for these lati-
tudes, and, being continental, not near so hot as the islands of
the same parallel.
"I have in the comae of the preceding narrative endea-
voured to describe such of the valuable productions of the
country as came under my notice; and I now repeat, that in-
exhaustible supplies of cedar, mahogany, sante maria, rosevr.lod,
and many other exceedingly valuable timbers may be obtained
on the coast, and on the banks of all the rivers in the interior.
Dyewoods, gums, drugs, and medicinal plants of various de-
scriptions, are plentifully dispersed all over the country. The
Savannahs rear considerable n-mbers of cattle; and if there
was a demand for them, innumerable herds could be supported
on the plains close to the shore, as well as in the interior.
Past experience confirms the assertion that the soil is well
adapted to the cultivation of sugar, coffee, cotton, tobacco,
ind:go, and all the other productions of a tropical climate ;
and I have no doubt that a sufficient quantity of rice and
Indian corn might be produced, to supply the whole of our
possessions in the West Indies with these necessaries."—W. 0.
ROBERTS, many years a resident Trader in the Country, pub-
lished in ItI2J.
" Scale careful observers affirm that a quiet possession in the
Mosquito country, would ono day be more valuable to Great
Britain than all the islands which that nation now possesses
in the West Indies."—Abbe RATNAL.

CLIMATE.—No winter is known. During the dry sea-
son nothing can excesd the softness of the air, the brilliancy
of the heavens, and the splendour of the vegetation. —J. G.
Bradford's American Atlas.

NATURAL PRODUCTIONS.—GoId, silver, copper,
iron, jasper, opals, marble, cattle, mahogany, hides, cocoa,
grapes, indigo, sugar, wool, and cotton.—Vide J. and C.
Walker's New Map of the World.