The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-22 00:00:00

CAPZ 'OR GOOD HOPE.

The folloicing is an Abstraa of the Account which has been
transmitted iv the Gentlemen who were sent by Govern-
ment, Ara a Voyage of Discovery into the Interior of
A fried.;

" After travel4g about 360 hours from the Cape,
or, as we suppose, about Soo English miles in the
direaion of N.E. or thereabouts, which would
bring them within two degrees of the Tropic, they
came to the Capital of the Boetzuanas, containing
about isoo houses, and 7000 inhabitants. The
name of this Ciry is Likitosv. So vast an assem-
blage of dwellings, exceeding' the number of those
in Cape Town, , with a population equal; if not su-
.perior, excluding the Slaves, makes it more than
probable, that the inhabitants have not 'only at-
tallied a very considerable pitch of civilization, but
it implies also a more than Ordinary degree of in-
dustry in the cultivation of the Arts, and the pur-
suits of Agriculture.
" Surrounded by a barren country, and border-
ing to the Northward on other tribes of people, re-
maining in a fixed and sedentary life, and deriving
little or no support from commerce, we are entirely
at a loss to Conceive in what tnanner they contrive
to subsist so great a multitude. The details of
their political and domestic economy must furnish
new and highly interesting matter to add to the
history of savage nations. It would be equally
unaccountable, that in the course of 160 years, no
' corres information of the Boetzuanas should have
been obtained, if it did not occur to us, that no
single discovery has been ended, nor any account
of the Southern Angle of Africa been made public,
except by occasional and foreign visitors. It may
be further added, that the country within the limits
of•the colony has been better-known, and more
travelled by Europeans Or settlers within the last
five years, than in the whole period of its coloniza-
tion/prior to the time we mention. At the capture
of the colony, no part of the very extensive Distrii
of Graaff Reynet appeared in any of their charts,
except Zwart Kop's Bay ; ' nor were there then
three men in the whole Cape who could point out
with any degree of accuracy where it was situated.
This dreaded journey of a long month is now become
familiar, and accomplished by a British Officer, with
a couple or three horses,'in six days.
" With regard to the Boetzuanas, their name,
their numbers, their situation, and resources, were
. all falsified in the accounts given by those who pre-
tended. to a knowledge of this nation.
" The literary world will derive no ,small de-•
gree of gratification from the labours of the present
expedition. Besides a variety, or perhaps a new
species,. of Rhinoceros, no less than four animals of
the 'Antelope and Bovine . genus, hitherto untie_
scribed, have been discovered, among which,_ one
''is stated to be allied to that .singular at 'teal the
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Gnoo, and another in some degree to th - arte.
hreest ; and the Fine Arts will be enriche by the
pencil of the very able Artist who accompanies the
ExpeditiOn. - ' .

" Notwithstanding 'The—great distance that the
Boettuanas are removed from the Cape, they cow-
plained grievously of certain persons on the fron-
tiers of the colony committing depradations on their
cattle, and ill.:treating their people. They parti-
cularly mention a man Of the name of Jan Blom,
who, with his gang,• had of late years very much
infested them ; and they concuded, naturally enough,
that all the colonists were like Jan Bloin ; and of
Course they were at first guarded and distrustful of
the present Commission; which, however, by a re-
sidence nearly of -a month,. sufficiently convinced
them that all Christians were not of the same de-
scription as Jan Blom and his gang.

• "'Humanity shudders in contemplating the de-
plorable situation to which the liulk of the native in:
habitants and rightful owners of this country have
been reduced; by the arts and machinations of such
lawless miscreants as these. To such,are owing the
numerous hordes of Bosjesmen, who, driven by im-
perious want' to assail. the habitations or the
flocks of the colonists,. are 'hunted down by the lat.
ter. with m eagerness, and destroyed with less
remorse; (fur their destruttiOn is the cause of tri-
umph), than the vilest or most obnoxious beast of
prey.

" The natural disposition of the different tribes
of Hot:entots is peaceable, and cheerful ; and.
by. gentle usage, might be rhoulded into any shape.
The habits of life in which.they have been brought
up, naturally incline them to a fondness of liberty,
and render them impatient of confinement and re-
straint ; but they are perhaps, of all the people in
the world who have been accustomed to a roving
life, the easiest broken in to constant labour, and
reconciled to a fixed abode. As. a proof of this,
we need only refer to the exertions of the Mission-
aries, whose endeavours in this country have been
crowned with better success than perhaps in any
other. Degr,aded as this people have stood in the
page of history, and represented as they have ge-
nerally been at the foot of the scale of rational
animals, we are doubtful whether any nation or
tribe of men, falling under the usual denomination
of Savage, are possessed with more natural endow-
ments, or more apt to acquire those of art than the
Hottentots. We could enumerate various instances
in support of this opinion, were it necessary; but
they are now so well and so generally knowo, that
such details are unnecessary."

CAUTION.--A number of counterfeit seven shil-
ling-pieces have within the last week been circulat-
ed with infinite success, and consequently much mis-
chief. As they are likely, from their. weighing the
full weight, and excellent appearance, to escape de-
tedion, we think, proper to put the Public on their
guard. They can only be discovered by a compa.
rison with a good one, when it will be found they
are considerably thicker, that the sound is much
thriller, and the impression on the face side fuller
and bolder than those struck in the Mint die. This
illegal coinage is supposed to be made of the metal
called platilla.

DUELLING.

BOMBAY, JULY 13, iSor

ME Quarterly Sessions commenced here on the
4.th inst. before Sir WILLIAM STEIL, Recorder,
and his Asiociate Judges.
The RECORDER having add ressed,the Grand Jury
in a very eloquent and impre,sive speech, elucidat-
ing the law, as applied to the various bills that
were to be brought before them, and particularly
upon the subject of Duelling, the Grand Jury re-
tired, and the Court adjourned until the following
day at ten o'clock, when the Grand Jnry returned a
true Bill against Lieutenant G. B. BELLASIS, and
Captain C. W.- By NE,' for the murder of Mr. A. A.
FORBES. MITCHELL, and no bail against Lieut.
MITcHtE, whose name stood in the same indiEt-
ment.

Mr. Do w D ESIV E L L, as Advocate for the Crown,
then moved that Mr. MITCH' E might be put to
the bar and tried upon the Ingdest of the Coroner,
with the view, as he declared, of bringing Mr.
MITCH I E forward as an evidence upon the trial of
Lieutenant BELLASIS and Captain BYNE—which
being opposed by Mr. MORLEY, as Counsel for
those Gentlemen, and the Court having heard the,
arguments adduced for and against the motion,
they were pleased to rejel it ; upon which Lieu-
BE LLAIS and Captain BYNE were put to the. Bar.
Mr. DOWDESWE LL having .ldressed the Jury on
the part of the prosecution; evidence on both sides
was heard, and the prisoners, both of whom address-
ed the Court, having finished their defence, at one
o'clock the Recorder summed up the whole of the
proceedings with his usual perspicuity and accuracy,
and delivered his charge to the Jury in a manner
that refleaed the highest credit on his abilities and
impartiality.
The Jury retired at midnight, and at half past
one o'clock on the morning of the r6th, returned
their verdid Guilty, but recommended them to
mercy.