Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-02-11
AFRICA.

Additional extracts FROM Sierra Leone pa
peFs
FRrErowN, July 81 On Tuesday last,
HIS Excellency the Governor embarked
on board the colonial schooner. accompan-
led by the Deputy Inspector OF He's ita!'
and the Superintendent OF the Liberated
Africans, tor York. Kent, and the Banan-
as from whence they returned this even
ing highly gratifed, finding the inhabitants
OF these distant settlements in a contented
and prosperous state.-At York, the peo
pie have cleared an immense extent of To-
rest, which 10 now uUdrr cultivation ; COT
fee, arrow root and cotton have been plan
ted, IN addition to the other articles usual
ly cultivated in this country for periodical
consumption. The highest praise is due
to Mr.. Johnson for bis assiduity and atten-
ton 10 the interests OF the people farming
Is their chief employment and delight ;
they attend prayersi every evening, and
there is a school al which the children re-
sort at regular hours daily. 49,.
The present season is uncommOnly mild
aud favorable (; there has been very little
sickness in, The colony, and that which has
prevailed has assumed a gentle character
The small pox, imported here in the P0r-
'tuguese slave vessel "'EstreiIa," prize to
H. NJ. brig Thistle. has bees happily ar
rested IN its progress, and confined 10 its
influence 10 those Africans who brought ii
with them. Vaccination is kept up with
energetic activity and steady attention, so
that no tears can be ~apprehended Of the
dissemination OF that most fatal and loath-
eo,,o l,saaca I'M Ill nov ononnn tho Inha.
bilants of The colony, and the native villa
ges adjoining this peninsula.
By letters from Bathurst, per the Ham
bletorian. via the Isles de Loss, OF the 10Th
ultimo, we learn that there had been lit
tie or no rain in the river Gambia, and the
setlIementswas quite healthy.
On Friday last, his excellency the Co.
vernon attended an Agricultural Meeting
at Regent: all the farmers OF the different
parishes in the mountains were assembled,
and we have understood that the progress
they have made this year far surpasses
that OF any former period,
FRErTowN, Aug lO.-ln the British
and Portuguese Court Of Mixed Commits
sion, on the 9Th instant, the brig ''Estrel.
la," prize to bis Majes:y's brig Thistle,
was condemned, and the slaves composing
the cargo decreed to be emapcipated.-
The Estrella arrived in this harbor on the
18th ultimo. The examination OF Pereira
dos Santos, the master of that vessel, be.
fcse the Court, furnishes a striking in
stance of the hopeless deprayity Of slave
dealers, as well as OF their utter contempt
Of the obligation of an oath This wretch
positively swore, that he had purchased
and shipped his cargo at Molepbo, and
that al the period of his capture. Dc was
on bis course thence to Bahia; there vas
also among the ships papers a fabricated
log, dated from Molembo, and nearly con-
pie,ed, I'D doubt for the inspection OF The
authorities at Bahia. We tear, the exam
ination of slave ships on their arrival in
the Braziis Cannot be very rigid, other
wise they must be detected in every in
stance, the very appearance OF the slaves
and their lang uage, so totally different
from those taken from the south OF The line,
fully indicating the quarter irom whence
they have been procured =.
We have heard a great deal Of the length
of voyage. from the Bigh,s OF Bisira and
Benin iu this colony /; the case OF the pre-
sent slave vessel however, makes rather
agains, The reasonings advanced on thai
subject, The. Thistle and her prize having
anchored here on the Rinth day from Prln-
ce's Island.
ACCIDENT.
A few days sgo, as a Mandingo man was
washing himself by tho side OF bis canoe