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SIERRA LEO ROYAL GAZETTES.

AND 611.NERAL IMPROVEMENT,

IiETOWN, DECEMBER 19, 1818.

1,1 resuming ow Publication, and endeavouring to
bring up the meu of intelligence accrued during its
heal ri, etion, no pai t of our duty is so agreeable as
that of giving an account of those improvements the
pee eress of which has been uninterrupted, and the
present advanced state snilicient to excite general
caulzetioe as .veil as to reileet the highest credit on
those ny whose ability and 'exec eons the work has
bee t accomplished.
In the opeoe of commencing with the improve-
meets of the town or with those of the interior, with
those on the shore ar those on our wore distant line
of settle:fleas, we give the preference to the latter,
because they have been achieved by the labour of
libeiyited Nerrrocs alone, tattler the direction of their
respective Ministers end Saiperintendants. It is but
a just and kroeful tribute of acknowledgment to the
roe al munificence and national liberality, which pur-
sued with sagnu. h co't and perseverance the gene-
rous object of the deliverance and civilization of the
once devoted victims of barbarism and bondage:—
and we can anticipate with delight the sublime gra-
tification which the friend!: and supporters of this
great cause will derive from seeing, so soon, such
excellent practical confirmations of their hopes and
reasonings--such benign fruits of their zeal and exer-
tions. ‘e e trust, that. as Pew/epee= has blessed
most of me illustrious leaders of that great cause
with length of days to behold this heavenly harvest
of their toil and deviation—they all, and if we might
name aly one in particular, Mr. Wilberforce, espe-
cially, may be long preserved to enjoy the permanent
and ccinsrantiv increasing glory which must result
from so ample an.: solid a commencement of social
and religious good as these liberated Negroes exhibit
in the bosom of Africa—in the favoured seat of that
vast engine of African degradation and desolation—
the Slave Trade.
At Iteeen,'s Town, (formerly called Hogbrook,
from the r. ul tude of wild hogs frequenting the
beautiful ea an that runs through it,? the young men
settled there haee furnished an example which will
long be admired, and -.,0t easily 'surpassed. They
have built two excellent stone bridges over their wa-
ters, one of them thirteen and a half feet square, and
the rise of the arch eleven and a half, and they have
brought a road by a new line, avoiding the most
steep descents and acclivities of the hills, without
much extending the course, as far as Leicester Moun-
tain, whence it is to be continued towards Freetown,
by the youths of the Establishment formed there un-
der the patronage of the Church Missionary Society,
aided by the first-liberated Negro Settlers, who are
long fixed there in comfort and independence, at-
tained by respectable industry, profiting from good
instruction. The road made by the people of Re-
gent's Town is two rods wide throughout, solid, and
level to a degree not easily attained in a country
like this. Several vast rocks which impeded its course
were softened, split, and broken by means of fire,
aided by the allusion of cold water when in the ar-
dent state. The adjacent forests furnished abun-
dance of wood for these operations; and the water
was a sufficient as well as an easily accessible substi-
tute for the vinegar said to have.been used by Han-
nibal on a similar occasion, in passing the Alps, to
invade the Roman territories in Italy. The ingenuity
of the Rev. William Johnson, Minister of Regent's
Town, who superintended and directed the work,
thus improving the knowledge furnished by his read-
ing, and the combination of his skill and ability with
the bodily strength and hearty zeal of his people,
produced such rapidity of execution, that the task
was completed in considerably less than one Month,
although the extent is full two miles; for -the Road
Act was not passed till the middle of September, a
couple of weeks subsequently elapsed before the Ma-
gietrates, in their meetings for the purpose, could ar-
range the distribution of the charge of executing its
provision, and the road has been finished 17 days ago.
Let it be considered that not more than three or
four years have passed since the greater number of
Mr. Johnson's population were taken out of the holds
of slave ships—and who can compare their present
condition with that from which they were rescued,
Without seeing manifest cause to exclaim—the hand
of HEAVEN is in this!—who that places the simple
and sincere Christian worship which precedes and
follows their daily labours with the grovelling and
malignant superstitions of their original state, their
grigries, their red water, their witchcraft, and their
devil's houses, without feeling and acknowledging a
miracle of good which the immediate interposition of
the ALMIGHTY could alone have wrought—and what
greater blessing could man or nation desire to enjoy
than to have been made the instruments of conferring
such sublime benefits on the most abject of the hu-
man race? If any other circumstance could be re-
quired to prove the immediate interposition of the
ALMIS!ITY, we have only to look.to the plain men
and simple means employed in bringing about the,
miraculous conversion that we have recorded—does
it not recal the first diffusion of the Gospel by the
Apostles themselves? These thoughts will occur to
strangers at remote distance when they hear these
things, and must they not occur much more forcibly
to us who have these things constantly before our eyes?
The roads from Leopold Town-and Charlotte Town,
from Gloucester Town, Bathurst, Wilberforce, and
Kissey, are all in forwardness on improved plans,
although not on so grand a scale as that from Re-
gent's Town, where the power of hands is most fa-
vourable to great exertion, comprising 1500 persons,
all in the bloom of life, with full promise now of
proportionately rapid increase.
Near Freetown, the circular road newly laid down,
is extended to a width which appears to anticipate
and prepare for the near approach of the time when,
the ladies of the Settlement will use it for a favourite
drive in their carriages, and the young cavaliers for
their regular parade on horseback, but the magni-
Ode of. the scale necessarily renders the progress of
the execution slow.
The road to meet that from Leicester Mountain is
cleared for levelling, and that to meet the road from
Kissey is levelled as well as cleared; other lines of road
are, we believe, under the hands of the labourer, al-
thrmiecit they have not come co immediately under our
paittenlir observation, for where exemples are so well
calculated to rouse, emulation willneVer be deficient.
Ttsc lines of roads inwards from Regent's Towu

and Gloucester Town to 13athurst and thence to Len-
pold and Charlotte Towns, are now in rapid progress.
iequal in breadth, and in proct ss still of execution to-
wards Freeto‘ n.

In addition to the public buildings previously made
known, we have to announce the erection of a hand-
some and spacious Hospital at Regent's Town, one
wiiig of which, two stories in height, designed for
female patie.tv., is' now ready to be rooted in ; the
other wing, for male patients, and the centre, for me-
dical attendants and nurse', are rising up in quick
succession towards the same level.

At Gloucester Town a spacious Church is now re-
ceiving the floor over its basement story, designed for
a v, areheuse for the public stores of the department.
At Bathurst Town, the Resident's house is finished,
with the exception of some of the inward work ; and
at Leopold Town, a very fine public building is cons-
ple:ed for the inward finishing:. This building com-
prehends, on the basement story, a warehouse ; above
that, under the same flight of stairs, a granary : then
a grand story, containing apartments for the minister
and teacher and his family, and a grand room for
worship and instruction—above this is an excellent
attic story, affording large additional accommoda-
tions. This building is 109 feet long by 29 feet broad
with a piazza or gallery, seven feet wide round the
whole building, roofed. Leopold Town has also a
good house for another public officer.
At Charlotte Town the public building, being but
recently commenced, is not yet far advanced ; but as
the favourable season is but just entered upon, we
may expect this, as well as al the other edifices that
we have mentioned as being in progress, to be finished
before the next rains.
In the excursion which furnished materials for this
statement, the party visited the waterfall between
Leopold and Charlotte Towns, which presents a very
magnificent appearance, the swell of the water in the
recent rainy season not having yet altogether sub-
sided. The majestic loftiness of the trees on the sum-
mit and sides of the rocky steeps—the snowy white-
ness of the torrent dashing from precipice to preci-
pice—and the noise and spray from the discharges
into deep ravines of rocks, would give an impre sion
of Alpine scenery, if the heat of the sun and some other
African accompaniments did not recal Sierra Leone.
In Freetown the work claiming most immediate
notice is the wharfs and quays for the convenience of,
loading and unloading the ships in the harbour. This
work, constructed with massy wrought stones, ex-
tends for a length of 832 feet six inches from the slip
'in front of the Government-house to the boat-house
adjoining 'the premises of Messrs. Macaulay and Ba-
bington, where another landing-place is in progress
projected into deeper water, so as to admit of landing
at all times of the tide. The Break-water for protect-
ing the present landing-places from the surf is so far
advanced as to render the landing easy and expedi-
tious; and two powerful cranes, one of them entirely
of cast-iron, are constantly at work, covering the
quay with casks and bales of imported merchandize,
or disencumbering it of native produce in return.
This solid and highly useful work was planned by
our excellent Governor, and constructed from its
commencement to its conclusion under his daily per-
sonal superintendance. Twelve months haTe.?%
passed since the whole accommodation for landrlg
was confined to a single slip ; now it is complete
through the whole extent that we have mentiotted,
and all that remains to be done is the projection for
landing in deep water at low tide.
The principal building of the hospital fOr liberated
Negroes is finished ; and a large house for the provi-,
sions-and stores for the use of these Negroes is roofed
in—the latter begun within the year.
It will not be matter of surprise that while these
works of immediate urgency have been pushed on so
rapidly, our great town Church has not kept pace
with them ; indeed, where so much occupation is
given to every hand by the multiplication of private
residences of a superior class as well as by the con-
currence of such a number of public buildings, it is
rather astonishing that this great edifice has not alto-
gether stood still. We are happy to observe, how-
ever, that it has got on notwithstanding all the im-
pediments enumerated. The pillars on which the
arches of the roof are to rest are now ready to receive
their capitals, some of which, simple but grand, are
put on; the others, we trust, will soon follow t and it
may be hoped, that as the labours hitherto divided
among so many important objects may be speedily
united on this one, we may before another year see it
opened for Divine Service in a condition becoming
the Metroplitan Church of West Africa.
The new Church, at Kissey, is rather more ad-
vanced, in a style of building of nearly equal excel-
lence, and the number of private houses of superior
descriptkas finished, or in progress, is even beyond
the extraordinary number of the last year. Thus
while the public works of greatest moment an mag-
nitude have been carried on with pre-eminent zeal
and admirable rapidity, others have followed them
with proportionate speed—private individuals have
not been deprived of the necessary aids for their im-
proved accommodation and—nothing has stood 4611.
Among the public buildings, it would be an act of
injustice to omit particular mention of the Fish-market,
the neatness of which renders it one of the most at-
tractive and gratifying objects on entering the harbour.
Its situation, close upon the water's edge, affords emi-
nent convenience for landing, cleanliness, and preser-
vation of the important article of sustenance for the
sale of which it is intended; at the same time that its
contiguity to the general market combines to
facili-
tate tie whole business of provisioning families.

A letter from Berlin, dated May the 15th, says,
gi The two days grand Spring Reviews of the Garri-
son of this City and Potsdam ended yesterday in se-
veral streets of the Capital, with an attack, which
was accompanied with so heavy a fire of musquetry
and artillery, that a very great number of windows
was broken in some houses near the residence of the
Prince Chancellor, and even the watches hanging
at the window of a watchmaker in the neighbour-
hood, were all damaged. During this violent attack.
the Crown Prince, who commanded the enemy, or-
dered several bridges to be drawn up, by which the
victory was decided in favour .of tire enemy, the ad-
versary being obliged to retreat precipitately, for
fear of having his retreat cut off. It is said this ?mea-
sure of drawing up the bridges was properly not con-
tained in the plan of attack which Lad been given.."

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1819.

Viutr-Tuasnay.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, and

South-Sea House.

Tux PI :NOS.—Private bargains—Consols for July 66g.

The common qnestion every where is, What are
the New Taxes to be? for the proposal to have a
Loan carries with it the idea of its natural conse-
quences—the providing of means to pay the interest.
We understand, that among the Taxes to be imposed,
is the revival of the whole or part of the War Tax on
Malt—not on the Public Breweries and-Distilleries,
but on the Malt itself, that private families may not
evade the Duty by brewing their own beer : an addi-
tional Tax will, it is asserted, be also laid upon Tea,
and upon Foreign Wool; and, it is confidently ru-
moured, that money will be raised by the sale of the
Assessed Taxes, or putting them in a state of redemp-
tion, as was done with the Land Tax some years ago.

In another column we have given extracts from
Sierra Leone Gazettes to the 20th February. Some
of the particulars-will be found possessing consider-
able interest.

We have also given extracts from German Papers,
which reached us last night. The expediency of
establishing Representative Constitutions throughout
Germany is not only the prevailing topic in the inter-
course of the people generally, but the subject of dis-
cussion in the Diet. In fact, every thing presses the
necessity of their adoption, nor will it be possible for
any long period to defer the measures which may be
necessary to put them in operation.
The friends of humanity and of social rights have
yet to lament the prevalence of that narrow spirit of
monopoly, which induces ignorant men to believe,
that, by denying the rights of others, they shall ulti-
mately increase their own gains. The Jews, in some
quarters, are still treated as a preset ibed race, and
even denied the right of residence on the soil and in
the towns that gave them birth. Let us hope that
the Diet will take this into their consideration, and
Extend protection to the helpless and persecuted de-
scendants of ABRAHAM.

The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night.

The Joeirnal des Debots states that the KING has
eztended.the Royal clemency to five more of the 38
individuals exiled by the Ordinances of the 21th of
.114, 1815, &ad 17th of January 1816, viz. Marshal
Somer., Lieutenant-General Pr RE, M. DIRAT, Count
REAM and M. PommenetTL.'
The Journal de Paris states farther, that o the

came day on what his MAJEr•TY co:tread 1:;.;
giveness on these five individuals, he also „t:
the return of the Ex-Conventionalists
worm ESCIIASSEItIA LI, TII ABA Wit 311,!
The Chamber of Deputie, con: rt:r.nced • :
day the discussion of the par:irttlar
Budget for 1819. The propose 1 Gra:lts for to
lic Debt, the Xinking Fund, the Civil Li,t, t'
Family, the Ministry of Justi: e, and Coul:cil o.
were respectively passed without any
The Chamber then adjourned.
Accounts are said to have reached Contra,
stating that the nephew of the Pach: r f F.,
succeeded in comp!etely di.persinz le:
the Wachabite forces, and has taken possessio
name of the Grand Seignior, of the P:ci
Yemen (Arabia Felix.)
The Governor of Egypt, Mohammed-lli
is represented as making great exertions to exi
commerce of that country. He has formed
andria an Insurance Company, with a c:
100,000 piastres, divided into two husuired
500 each. It began doing business on the Ist
last ; and has obtained the countenance cf
commercial houses in Egypt.
The excavation of the Canal, which is to le:
Raminich to Pompey's Pillar, is cornmen(
the Pacha himself frequently superintends the
men, who are very numerous.
The Turkish flotilla, which usually cruizes
the summer in the Archipelago, was about
die of last month ready to put to sea. It is uni
command of a Capt tin.
An officer of the Bostanghi Bacchi was lat
by order of the Grand Seignior, to seize on t.
of Prince Costacto llorusi, and conduct him
telene. This measure has excited a good de:-
prise—the more especially as the Prince i
to four Greek families to whom the Grand
has granted the perpe:ual Government of V
and Moldavia.
A curious conflict has arisen in the Swim
of Lucerne between the Civil and Eccles:as:
thorities, on a matter of jurisdiction. A new
Law had been passed -in the Canton which
that the Curates should furnish Extracts of
from the Parish books in order to enable
Authorities to carry the balloting for the 111
execution. • The Episcopal Vicar-General
that he saw in this enactment a great contemi
Clerical Authority, arid he wrote a letter to
vernment, in which he maintained that the 1
of Baptism being purely Ecclesiastical acts,
had no right to interfere with them unless
concurrent approbation and consent of the
Ecclesiastical Authority.
The Government, however, paid no attcntiett
this remonstrance, but proceeded to take vr
rous measures against some Curates, who,
to the injunction of their superior, refused
the extracts required. The Vicar-General ;
against this conduct of the Esccutivt
Sovereign Council of the Canton. The Cow
cordingly met on the subject, and the result'
that they have passed a severe reprimand
Vicar-General, and ordered that the law shall
variably and strictly executed.
Letters from Rio Janeiro have brought intel
of the sudden death of Baron de NEVEN,
trian Minister Plenipotentiary.
The Archduke CHARLES and his spouse,
through Frankfort on the 21st ult. on their
Vienna.

The Prussian Government has issued twi
Orders of considerable importance. One
prohibits the proprietors of Prussian Pol.
dispossessing their peasants of their farms
some previous judicial proceeding; the other
the Royal Administration of the Establishi
the Poor of Berlin, and confides that Admi
to the Municipal Authorities. The King
a sum of 75,000 crowns per annum to the
propriated to the relief of the Poor.
The Russian Privy Councillor, D'Engel
Governor of Theodosia, is said to have foul
Crimea the true breed of the goats of Kirgui
wool, according to the testimony of French I
Curers, particularly M. Ternauz, is the salmi
of the goats of Thibet. M.Jouhert, during
ney which he made into the Crimea, discov,
the goats there were the same as those whit.
purchased among the Kirguis ; the breed had,
at an anterior period, been imported from
guis into the Crimea. This discovery is ex;•
have a great influence on the fabrication of
in Europe.

The Augsburgh Gazete states, that the
de Survellers (Madame Joseili 13onapart(
proposed to sail this spring for America, ii
rejoin her husband, wished previously to
in order to recover the property which Jose,

left there, but that s.s. many obstacles have
the execution of this design, that she has Jeff
jour:ley to France till the spring of MX).
French 5 per Cents. Yiarsilay, Mfr. tiPc,

Another day's Paris P.yers (those of

art ived at a late hour this foa.noon.

The Journal des Deb.rts, a:ludiag to the
recal of the Es-(7onventkinatiqs, Fourty
BIGNY, and t?iree othe..s. o:me.:ves, that the
stand in the list of 11,-,;ici,:es; ,111,1 it i,

to c:cdit rciort, Fc:iz:vc exc.

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Deputiet, that the .Itlnn. never
it to the return-of any oEthe Regicides;
ber of Peers had a public. Sitting.on Fri-
icy adopted the Law on the Jotsrnuis, as
le Deputies, without any new. amend-
votes were, 142 for its adoption, and
!ciion.—Majority, 128.

her of Deputies, on the same day, re•
I scussion of the Budget of 1819. 'I he
to the Minister of 'Foreign Affairs,
floni 8,000,000 fr. to 7,856,000 fr. The
that to the Minister of the Interior,
tze, was also gone into,- but adjourned
.—Five ter Cents. Friday, 66fr.60:.

AMERICA.

OF A LETTER FROM BOSTON, MAY 1.
Irmation from South America is interest-
of Lima, and the consequent junction of
Patriot cause, is completely decisive to
;math America. New Grenada has pro-
! this, followed the example of Peru, and
then remain to Spain of her possessions
rencsuela and Mrtico ; end the tide of
oiling from the south, and swelled by the
ictory and enthusiasm, will, before ano-
inundate Mexico, and sweep froth the
nainent every vestige of Spanish domi-
nos Ayres appears to be acquiring wabi-
iovernment : that able Statesman, Puey-
aispended his patriotic and successful
;on, in consequence of a very serious acci-
;uccessor, Don Jose Beudeau, is a brave
zealous Republican-

an entire stagnation of commerce here,
'es are very great through all the towns in
be President is now ,on his southern
ver may be his object, whether to inspect
)nvenient scite on OUT sea ports for the
nil itary works, or whether he goes merely
popular gaze, I think such events will
with the happiest results. The people
gratified at the sight of their Chief

id we believe, just compliments, are paid
final Intelligencer to Mr. BAoor, the late
im this country to America. He is praised
7of deportment, and urbanity of man.

described as having been the most po-
therefore the most useful Ambassador
itish Government has yet sent out to
m. We are not inclined to dispute the
iers or conciliatory temper of Mr. &soar,
not help thinking, that it is perfectly

. the Americans to look back with corn-
'lsfr dtat pot** tit time daring-which
been suffered, to make certain enormous

of offensive power in relation to this
and that, as' they can hardly tail to asso-
aich sweet remembrances the %tante of the
aster whose-residence amongst them was
ry with the events themselves, we may
ibe some portion at least of the panegyric
nivel than pure admiration of his merits
lishments, however unquestionable.

'HESS OP Kiwi.—Dr. DAVIS has visited
twice a-day till yesterday, when, on ac-
T Royal Highness going on so favourably,
only visited her once. The following
is issued :
,al Highness the Dachas of Rim continues in a
te. The Royal Infant is well.
ined) "J. WILSON. "D. D. DAVI&
,on Palace. Mayday. One oTiock, May 31."
;less of GLoucEaren visited the Duchess
,sterday.
the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER
Tons dinner party.
al Highness the Duke of CLARENCE has
intention to return to England forthwith,
ichess. We wish that all our fellow-sub-
:es, Peers, and Commoners, would follow
Admiral's example.
I of LIVERPOOL gave a grand Entertain-
rday to most of the Foreign Ambassadors
party of distinguished personages, at his
•e Wood.
of LONSDALE gave an elegant Entertain
,nday to the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl
Lord SIDMOUTH, the SPEAKER Of the
,oirimons, Mr. Caoxita Mr. PEEL, kc. &c.,nee, Charles-street, Berkeley-square.
LEOPOLD.-114 Royal Highness Prince
arrived at Claremont between three and
;:k on Saturday afternoon. Every thing
'll had been commanded to be done, or even
to be executed, by his late beloved PRlX-
been proceeded on, and is to be completed
to her plans. Among the works finished
PRINCESS had planned, is the Temple in
re grounds, where her Royal Highness first
n she arrived at Claremont, which was to
a fanciful Gothic buildin",c, for her Royal
to retire to, but which, alas ! is now con-
• a Mausoleum to her memory. The Con-
planned also by her Royal Highness, is
;lied ; in the middle of it is a room for
ich will be surrounded by trees and plants
id, so that any person in it will be entirely
The attendants and domestics of the late
RINCESS have been retained in the service
.EOPOLD. On Sunday afternoon the PRINCE
al.inds, on a short visit to the Duchess of
esterday morr.ing, about eleven o'clock,
Ili,,h•ess left. Claremont for London. this
;hness drove to Marlborough House. At
wo the PaitcE, attended by Sir ROBERT
I. Went to Carlton House, to pay his rsspects
SCE RECENT, with whom he remained till
he then proceeded to Kensington Palace,
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