The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-14 00:00:00

DISAPPOINTED ADVENTURERS.

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We take the following from what was published in our
paper of 311onda), under the title of extract 6f a letter
from a settler at the ('ape of Hood Hope. The entrees
is signed C. 11. G. We have no knowledge of the party;
but cannot help noticing one passage in the extract,
which leas fhllows :
" 1 arrived here from the interior with my family on
" the 26th of August last, after a tedions, dangerous
a journey, and we are now. thank Ono! safely lodged is
the house of litypheer Vanderloel. 1 have now time
" to breathe, and turn over dispassionately in my mind
1" the eventful occurrences of the last 15 months. There
" is, in some men a certain ofratinary of disposition
" which no reasomiur, or councilcan work upon; and no.
" thing short of actualersiferint can bring them to a sense
" oftheir own weakness andfolly. Sack am I ;had 1 acted
"on your kind advice, what hardships, peril., and
" anxiety. should I have avoided! The political then-
" rirt, who sits in his closet in perfect smirity, devising
" (as lie vainly imagines) able and islet {rev plans, for
" the benefit of the smite, views only his wellhilrawn spe-
" culations on one side of the question, sees ao difficulties
" or obstacles to check or control their successful opera-
,. tions,wonder. every one can't see as be dors, and realize
" his Quixotic ideas as fast as he can form them. Hut
" with such men and measures, I am completely at issue,
" and cannot but deeply regret 1 should, in the first in.
" stance, have romtnitted myself a willing victim to use-
" railing hope and credulity. You know we left Hug-
" land lull of spirits and the liveliest expectations of bet-
" tering our condition in the land of promise. Little
" was 1 or any of our fellow voyagers aware of the
" arm/au/reed P/u prehand fur us."
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That this settler is a person of great obstinacy of dis.
position; that no reasonings or advice can work upon
him! that nothing short of actual inhering ran bring
him to a sense of his own weakness and folly; these
(acts we can easily believe ; for, if he had seen nothing
but oar advice ; nothing but the reasons which we gave
shout going to the Cape of lined Hope, they were quite
sufficient to have prevented any rensona&le man front

going.—liur, this settler, chastised as Ile has been fur
his presumpt:on, stems 6y no mean% to he cured ; for lie
now erect* isiusself Into a ; and decides in a sere
yereuiptory manner dpoe the puneits and practices of
those whom he calls political theorists! llnw does he
know that there are political theorists, devising plsra
and seeing no difilroltlet or °lntact** to cheek them is
the execution of them? Who is he aiming ar,
he talks of "polities/ theorists" wondering that eh,'
one cannot " see as they de, and reglize their chiswit
" Mena as fast as they can form them ":"—Pron what fel
latest from his saying that with :tech mem Awl mensertr
be is nosspietefy of issue; from his paying this irsonld
appear, that the polities! theorists are those that vir4o4
him to go to settle at the Cape of Good Ilupr' It
was no political theorist that advised hies to go. Item
his own folly and Feedlots* and impudence, Ire,'
this whit goverment that formal tine project of a set-
tlement ; it was this immaculate House Of Consinoss, that
voted a parcel of English taxes for the purpose of &shit.
log in the settlement: these it was that took him to lat
tossed about at sea; to be cuffed and kicked by the
brutal Mynheers; to base his p *theta toned heir!.
snit ; to bang himself ; sr totem, back like a fool a, d
be laughed at; with the Oddities of a well-merited
certain lecture from Lis rile for tie. rest of his lifetime,
troth is, the fellow finds himself raised He
is aware that be must come haek. qa it. sane fdkw
thet sells thugs, of some sort j,aadlealsommits py his
court to the Lord Joints and the Lerd'esiantesas, be
reviling hisnstlf, I. the first plass; fey riding Lionel(
rroweited feel ; and. thee comparing himself to dose
" Politicos! 'imprints", who %apt a change is the same
of managing things at home' Just as if Ihe asking fur
a Kellam of the Parliament had any thing is ammo@
with the beastly folly of a trip to the Cape of Geed
llope in search of riches and happiness ! Just salt the
Parliamentary Reformers bad ever advised peeph is p
to the Cape of Good Hope! Jest as if they &dm ad.
ways call the project a animal& humbug; and, for
ourselres, we always said, that the people who sof-
frred themselves to be deluded by it deemed nen
cala
iaminiiiiestyiktishimt rouanseel fall s t
seems
sdes tioponedtohismmere. Obisftlses
skate;
ee..
we wish him joy of it with all our hears.—Let dine
complainantistsiame the Oeveroment and the Partisan,,
if they must blame somebody besides themselves; and
let deem set primed to discover "politico: theerias"
(Oa" 'NOM that corruption has givea ton.
refaaset) Olio. him had a hand in producing their suf-
hgetrtot•oe.: r
The

It is said. will roan% Is Allis to
,
ihitsist at thoViarstions about to be resumed %treadles
`,4*ln of *404 as a prioeipal es Ike pap st(patM.
vailinnalloiahfefilarisar authority to which refaimmomy
be-hed AIM asirahlai with all the preinndir
maims.
°spumous Jaw.--la Lori Jonsltessess's " ?mtg.
(is se it tally is ssalied 1) if Do* Cartes. there a 141
ker. via etas Apo " Mama Waded" Carlos • leaf
ateponyint, ewe if whey la order t+ insure malts
grams "ipermeasOis." ahem Carlos at* yet bite poem.
Weanisse be!, esasting•inka sort of ireeryts bet flas is
eatatilkienen of gssosapirsoltril
'MS M see-
Alsotiin Sananms a JTWI Tusk lisbaimpips devitetbeu

fewaldTbennilllll6•lo tetesh, were heeiliiht dm aMe cats.
HANKIigAR, of tip foreign-tilice. "'sited*, to the SW
baser there. This, we suppose, ft a Mitten ef Caine..
neaces famous Doctor.
War Teneathu published a first volume. of "i
of the tan mar fa Spain and Portegal."—This
is, it ammo. to cut Isep,pound ten shillings. War lias
• lately published musething in praise of the Ciertei,
üby law established.r WAT is a canning fellow. lie
has all *ha Proems* fog„ easterners in the book•way:•••
that be works his way apace. And he is right; far,
rise harvest may kot last loag! If Ws r could show the
Landlords bow to get ryas, and at the same time, I.
preserve (knew aid OM Sart*. what a sale Wee wend
get for his recipe! •
Landlords and Parsons.—These two descriptions e
persons, so long co-operating with inch perfect harmony,
appear, at last, to be on the eve of 'open hostiaties.—
The landlord, in one half of the cases already, gets MO
rent; but thelarson comes and teket a teeth of the pro.
dyer still. This cannot go en long. Now, if War
TYLER could reconcile the interests of there parties: if
he could show them how both could get out of the fa:-
men what they want, what a teeasure War week( be
o them. •
blr iOll% SINCLAIL—This fatuous old Scotch Emu-
valet has jut pet forth a Circular Letter to the entrees sad.
occupiers of teed, advising them to petition QM Parlia-
ment for a large salpple (dosser, ; for an • • ierraweed
rency," as ha calls it. He even sends them a printed fern kg
a petition! Our readers will remember bow the
Refurtucre were mired, how they were stoat
coned, in 1317, for eignfog petitions, a piste'.
forrat,q( wide* bad been synt "hoot the cbuntry. (lb
How they were abased and baeallid. No blackguards
that ever were kicked mita company ever made use ot
language such as the bforkgeards. the low, Amigirt, ,
and scoundrel blackguards, of that day, made use of tie
wards the Reformers for copying a primed form of a
petition! Aed wow (.1h! God, thou art lest !) Here 44
Pricy Councillor, a Right Honourable ilrisy Corwwillsr
sending round a printed form of a petition fur Me Lead.
lords! We shall notice the purport of the silly thieg
another time.
The opinions contained in the letter from Valparaiso.
astral the 31st Jnly, posted at Lloyd's, are trite at va-
riance with the accounts received Iron, several other
saucers The same vessel, the Lord Cathcart. which
brought that letter, brought one dated Linia,3loth Jeer.
in whien the writer enters at considerable length halt.
the state of the contending forces. He mates that
the Independent parte, sure of their ultimate bumf.
bad lost time in consolidating their Goveromest, and
that their finances were not in a too'( state, but
that the troops which had been employed in the caw-
paign of Quito were about to arrive at Lima on their
return, together with reinforcements from Pajama. Ile
roncludes by givine his opinion, that if the Spaniard,
do not receive the reinfort•euients they give oat they us-
pert, the war against tiomt will l,e conelnded during dth e
pending campaign.—Also letserr frem t'alparaisoolate
Aur. If, he the sitar vessel (the Lord Cathcart.) make
no mention of any such state of Peru as that reported
in the opinion given by the writer of the letter of Jul**
31, above alluded ie. being altogether idlest en the sale
jest, u hieh, nevertheless, nearly concerned them.