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ExTRArT, Or A PRIVATE tErnea, DATED JULY, 1926.
am only waiting to get the titles to ray laud, when,
if I can get as much for it as will carry us all back to
England, I will return, and go to daily labour in pre-
ference to remaining where 1 cannot get common jus-
tice. Although there are Commissioners of Inquiry
here—would
.you believe that 1 have been corresport-
thug with them, and with the Colonial Government,
ever since November last, and am, by rule of might
not right, to be kept' out of the deposit money, I ad-
vanced for persons who never came out to this colony
—who never put Government to a shilling expellee,
and coesequeetly there can be no claim Net up against
the sums advanced in their names ? This is one of
the mine et uke, instances that I could bring forward of
coloeial justice, but " a still tongue maketh a wise
ll'ead." It is a greae proof of my moderation that lam
not in England to give evidence, not, against Gite only.
Times are getting very bad here, with prospect of
worse insteadt of better, from many causes ; they
cannot all be the effect of ,climate. There never
was a finer or more healthy climate. The great defect
of the country is the want of good navigable rivers,
and, unfortunately, there is hardly any rise of tide on
the coast worth speaking of. People complain of want
of capital ; that appears to me an evil that will' be in
this country perfectly incurable. There never can be
lexports to reach tit, rite half the anaeuut of the imports.
Wine, as you know, from this colony, will hardly sell
in England for hog-wash, while such superior wines
can be had at nearly as cheap a rate, from the neigh-
bouring countries in Europe. Hides cannot be sup-
plied as cheap as from South America. ivory is nei-
ther so abundant, nor so good as from the west coast,.
Tallow cannot be sent with any prospect of success, as
it is usually as dear at Cape 1 own as in London:—
Wool will be a long time before the qualit will be
fit for any thing but to stuff mattresses. The great
drawback to that also will be the price of labour, even
when the colony may have attained both quantity and
quality of its wool. The same drawback exists against
the timber, of wf:.l but two kinds are worth export-
ing, viz ; stink wood, if equal, certainly not superior
to mahogany, and ides wood, which is equal to satin
wood. The metals we at present know nothing about ;
we hear at random of lead and copper.
Persons possessing a small income, such as half-
pay officers for instance, may do very well, that is,
comfortably as to animal life, if they have no " soul
above buttons." By having a small grant of land or
purchasing a piece, they may eat their own beef, poul-
try, and pork ; make their own butter and cheese ; grow
their own vegetables, and Indian corn. Wheaten meal
or flour must be bought at an extravagant rate ; tea
and sugar as dearas in London. Horse flesh is cheap,
and the horse grazes all the year round, except about
three months of the sickly season, when he ought to be
stabled. Clothing is exorbitantly dear ; on an average
two hundred per ceut. dearer retail than in London.
Taxes are nothing ; mine, this year, were under it.
sterling. But these persons must do bodily labour,
in a greater or lesser degree in proportion to their in-
come ; 150/. per annum will not exempt them totally.
They may get drinkable wine by the half pipe, at about
seven-pence per bottle. The above applies to all the
frontier districts. I recollect, in 1805, visiting a
prison ship, when one of the French prisoners, after
telling me of all the agreeables of the ship, added.
cc rears point de :-.Lany.
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