The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-02 00:00:00

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• • . • .CAM •OF.. GOOD MOM
By the Venus, %vane. wjabils areiveit no •
from the Cape of Good ffitO, rinds bare been tte%l
in town, from that Colony to the 17th October. The
Venus left St. Helena on the 30th October, and on her
passage from that island to Falmouth, on the 2d of De-
Lceinher spoke the Adamant. homeward bound from Cal.
cutts, in lat. 41, 6., long, 34. 4g. all well. The follow-
ing is an extract of letter brought by Oki Veins, detod
Ci4o Town, October 10 r— • '
Oar last accounts from our settlements at Graham's
Town, continuo to be of a very unsatisfactory
The settlers there are very discontented with their id-
tiation, and such as have been able to raise the means
64 obtain the Goiernor's permission, are rapidly quit-
ting the plaie. In the environs of that settlement the
.-4,4ffres have lately made some dangerous incursions,
and, several of the settlers Who had taken up their ha-
bitations;in the immediate vicinity, hail, it was reported,
fillip victims to the savages. This had also been !the
cite With some individuals who had imprudently ven-
tured in thewoods, for the purpose of hunting, and who
have not since been heard of, but it was feared had
been murdered, as traces of .a party of Cares having
been in. the direction of their route, were discovered by
the party who were sent in parsuir of the absentees.
"To add to the inconvenience of those settlers resid-
ing in the °Makin, of Graham's Town, hostilities are
stated to have taken place between two of the Caffre
Tribes, in their neighbourhood, and several cattle bad
been carried off at various times by the marauding par-
ties of the combatants in their pursuit of each other
through or (near to the European settlements. Two
tineskets had also been stolen from the house of one
M'Guire, whose residence w on the border, of the
'Hottentot country. :Some of the settlers, however, on
this side of Graham's Town, had succeeded in:manuring
and, in some-measure, cultivating, several plots of the
ground there which had hitherto defied all agricultural
ingenuity and industry; and there was every prospect
of a considerably further portiOn being brought fit for
cultivation by the next season, although the impregna-
tion of salt-petre in the ground is very strong, and ex-
ceedingly difficult to.get rid of.
All.bopeof civil:29g the Cares Is now given
oier: the national: Maine oftldi people liierocity, and
they do net possess's*? of 'that' • nuncoltivated shrewd-
nem which has been so insink.observed in many tribes
aid aadogs Qt iayggm. They raye.yeEy,y upl end svi thous
any Menai- sod"; or.miy epparent whit to knOvi More!
Vika ihiliinide stated fife had alreadt 'taught' theta;'
awd bnrsettlershave now given ovir • Srii 'thought of 111-'
.tempting to obtain their friendship, nine am ..owly ann.
Jens to guard themselves against silts :eossetimantes
their animosity. . .
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" The tritts of Kin.llClug ialusfever some exception
`to this rultt,„ ThialUblef, ever since he has obtained
his inthOrityi bat; been very. anXicitir to be upon sociable
and Intimate term, With the Engliefi,' and has tendered,
eV air thei iiiirtance in his power to check the stroeitm
inroads snit daring depredations of the natitesi and
through his means frequently droves.ofeattle; belonging
to the settlers,which wotild otherwise have been inevi I
ablY 104.:.11.ite. been recovered. In MUM fug these fa-.
Am. 4e. hen received c an. id eraArig preeeskif hi from the
Goverbor, as Well as from some of our princl,ple settlers;
but 'alibiing's his tribe is snelable,•no
Issr is 'enn.rtsined'ellit :any • consWerstrie • tntercomou
will coat be oartied:on between the • European sotto%
and the quart's. I siouldjterp,tiontion the, portion of
country held by thein.connprehends the most fertile, as
'Well Si the'imit barren part of!the country:" • .
Arm* abost.li years of age, in.gOlag dotes. a slide, by
.the side of the paverisent, yesterday.- John-strest,
.Ssoithtiold, felt on the edge of the pavaassasupod broke hie
back, bone. He was carried hows to Ids twastoes, s 4rOkal
in the neighbourhood. • •