The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-14 00:00:00

THE POYAIS TERRITORY.

An attempt to raise a large loan in England on the
credit of the district in Amerce, called the Poyais Ter-
ritory, has lately brought that country into notice. In-
deed, until the speculation of the loan, few had e►er
heard of such a country. Since that period, however,
the newspapers have abounded with descriptions of it :
some representing It a terrestrial paradise, others, a place
6t only for vermin and beasts of prey. Truth lies some-
where between those extremes, and the following account
of the Poyais territory, being of that cl.. ratter, appears
intitled to credit

The Postai, territory, although an infant state, is as old
as any other part of America. All Geographers agree
in this opinion, as there is nothing volcanic in its sur-
face to denote a novel creation. The climate gives beat
and cold, and rain, and sunshine, differing only in degree
fromathe climate of the finest countries on earth. This
is a fact that may be relied upon. The population is not so
dense as that of Lancashire, or perhaps the County of Tip-
perary; but this is a most fortunate circumstance, as it affords
piney of room for Scotch and Irish emigrants, of Thom there
is enough to fill it. When all these are settled in Poyais, it
will be as thicaly inhabited as any part of the United States.
In civilisation it excels the most polished countries of the
old world.Yoo every where find perfect peace anci tranquillity,
without the aid of army, police, or watchmen. All is as
quiet and silent as in a desert. Among the female sex the
naked fashions are as prevalent as in any city in Europe.
They have also a profusion of feathers far exceeding the
display of a drawing-room at S. James's. In precious
stones too they are not deficient; but our informant was not
sufficiently skilful to say whether they are real diamonds.
But it is, in a financial point of view, as a safe security
for money, a most eligible ground for great capitalists to
expend their cash, whether in purchase, loan, or mort-
gage, that the Poyais country hoists a superiority over
every other existing State. It is not subject to the enor-
mous expet.srs of an army or navy. It has no Court of
Chancery to involve its people in endless litigation. It
has no Royal Household to support with all its expensive
establishments. It is; not loaded with taxes like England,
nor pressed to death by the enormous weight of a
national debt. In fact, it is free from all incum-
brance, but that of woods and forests, which require only
transportation to Europe,to be of great value. There is an-
other quality peculiar to this country, which must prove a
great temptation to speculators. Any money advanced open
it, whether, as loan or mortgage, most be perfectly safe;
because from the peculiar ditture of the country, nobody
will be ever able to louch it. If any collateral security
should be required, it can be readily supplied. The con-
tractor may have a wilderness of squirrels and insects.
Poyais, like Java, can also boast its squirrels
nests.
4,* A day spent in the Poyais country, will appear on the
first open day.

It is pleasing to observe, that the country churches in
Scotland, which were formerly very homely, often un-
comfortable and inconvenient structures, are now gene-
rally built with some regard to good taste, so as to be
ornamental to the scenery of which, from their situations,
they frequently form a conspicuous part. Attention to
this contributes, in no small degree, to the improvement
of the country; marks a becoming respect for religion ;
and adds much to the comfort of those attending public
worship. In the parish of Kens. the minister Los been
able to to raise, from those connected with the parish.
such liberal subscriptions as have been sufficient to erect
a handsome Gothic Toner, which not only accords in
its character with the comfortable and commodious
church to which it is added, and which was built. at the
same time, by the beritors, but it is also ornamental to
the commanding situation on which it stand,. which is
one of the most romantic in the South of Scotland.—
(Edusiurgh Star.)