The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-05 00:00:00

THE Si ATESVAN.

NEW SEME-lIENT .41 THE CAPE OF
GOOD HOPE.

A number of persons having emigrated from dif-
, (ergot parts of this county to the Cape, and various
costradietory statements, souse favourable, and others
unfavourable, having recently appeared in several
'Journals of the day respecting the settlement near
Alyea Bay, we have been favoured by a respected cots
' respondent at Burslem with copies of two letters from
a person who was sent out by that parish, with his fa-
mily, the beginning of the present year, from which
we give an extract, and doubt not but it will be ac-
ceptable to a great portion of our readers. The let-
ters are addressed to the father-in-law of the writer,
and, though in a simple style, they speak the lan-
, . gasp of sincerity. The family sailed in the ship
John, of Liverpool, the 2d of January. The wri:er,
after having given an account in his first letter, dated
jth February, of a prosperous voyage as far as Ma-
deira, in his second, of June 13, continues the narra-
tive until the ship mires safe in Algoa Bay, on the
.341 of May, whets he observes—
We landed on the sth, and went to camp on the
10th, when there came waggons belonging to the
Dutch farmers to convey us on our journey up the
I country to the land appointed for us, which took seven
days. Two of the first days the land seemed to be
. j but barren, rocky, rough, and full of brusliwo.ol ; the
rthird and fourth days wr came to some beautiful land,
after which it became something moms on the sth and
A
utoL , hut on the evening of the latter day we fame fo
111ne land again, and on the seventh to our on n land ;
that of the Marquis of Station! in Trentham Park is
I not to compare to it, being so green and full of all sorts
of fine Wooers; there are aloes three and four yards!
high in full flower, with all kinds of beautiful birds
the country is lull of hills end valli•s, with rivu-
lets of fresh cater, tole a lade:y of trees, the
soil very fine. Pheasants. bucks, ;lairs, and turkeys in
alonwiatice. hot; not so roll of wild creatures as we ex-
pected ; there are sonic, but over the hills they say
there are plenty of all sorts of them. 'I be buys, all
three of them, are getting as fat as HO.. pigs, and
if you wi•ii to rotor I have plenty of good land,
enough Tor us all ; wo. bra- no more will he reLt out,
there are plenty rowing at their own expense, but if
you have a mind to collie you shall have plenty of
land, an') old plenty of tobacco, for I shall have
a (Top of my own growint: by the time yon reach
Isere;—if you come, hiring a quantity of garden seeds
with you, and keep them so that you ran get to them,
I for most of mine were Broiled in tl:e crate by the heat
on crossing the line, for want of air and looking
to. I have built a house of wood and clay, and
am likely to do well. We have not wanted for food or
money since we left you; we hiee twenty-six pounds
and a quarter of mutton per week, and bread, sugar
and tea. We reo...ived our first minty at Algoa flay, but
are not to receive any more, fur liovennnent has or-
dered it better for ma to find its food till we get a return
from our land, and then for 'is to pay it back again from
our produce in small paytnen.s. As soon as we are set-
tled the Government has proc.i.sd for us, and promised
us • pair (male and female) of cattle of different
kinds, such as a cow and a bull, sheep, pigs, are. and
fowls of various sorts. Our sheep weigh about 40
pounds ; the tail is large, solid, and fat, weighing
about three ponnds. We are in our land about ten ur
eleven miles bout graham's Town, in the district of
Albany. A letter emit* me eighteenpence to send out
of the colony; bat thanks be to God, we have not
wanted either money or meat, for we hare plenty of
buttb."—(Staffordshire Advertiser.)

BRIMITON, OCT. 2.—Tbe King left this place to-
day for his Cottage at Windsor. his Majesty had not
quitted the Pavilion since his arrival from Portsmouth;
but this day, on coming out in his way to town. he
reviewed the !s.ith regiment of foot. Before quitting
the yacht a certificate was given to Sir Edmund Nagle,
for the sake of his wiper with Lord Yarmouth, that
the King had sailed 94 leapnes. On Saturday the
Duke aid Duchess de Cases had a view of the Pavi-
; lion, an exception having been made from the esta-
blished rule of not *hewing it while his Majesty is
Ihere, in favour of his Excellency. After their visit
, they returned to Worthing.
bumf:rte.—During her Majesty's aquatic excur-
sion to IWoolnich, on the ;tit ult. she was saluted
by all the vessels in the river; but, by none, we may
venture to say, in so uncommon a manner as the lit id-
port packet, Spink, belonging to this port, then on her
voyage to Dundee. On her Majesty passing the
smack, about four o'clock, near Oreenwich, all on
board were astonished to hear loud h front the
mast-held, and more so when, on looking up, they
perceived a jack-tar (a native of this town and one of
the passengers) seated on the very truck, grasping
the vane in one hand for support, and with the other
loudly cheering her Majesty as she sailed along. The
Queen was graciously pleased to notice Jack's in-
trepid conduct, by repeatedly waving her hand to his
stentorian salutes ; which were rendered not the lose
musical by a few cups of kindness he had bad a short
time before, on parting with an old shipmate he had
not seen for many years.
A lady of the-age of 66 years appeared before a
Magistrate in the comity of Carmachen last week,
and swore a child to a neighbour of hers, in the
parish of Llanddarog, aged seventy-two years.—.
Bristol AL.rerry.
The Bridge across the Menai is in a progressive
state of forwardness ; the abutnieuts on the Anglesea
side are upwards of 60 feet high, whilst those on the
' Carnarvonshire shore arc also in a fair way. The
Bridge, when completed, will be one of the wonders of
Europe.
In conseqnence of the heavy tonnage duty Imposed
on American vessels, on entering the ports of France,
application has bred made to Bovernment, to allow the
laver*** of American vessels to be warehoused is this
gesetry, and re-shipped, frost of duty, in Preach or
British bottoms. The application has been acceded
I to, and Falmouth and Cowes have been named as the
ports where such cargoes way be landed and re-ship-
ped. Several American vessels are now out their pas-
sage to this country with cargoes intended to be re
shipped for the French markets.
The Cube, for Petershargh, put back to 'Liverpool
on Monday, with lose of fore-topmast.