Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-02-25

LOUIS SCHAEFER.
Hypocrisy Of Great Britain.
The New York Globe gives the fol>
lowing list of the depredations Of Great
Britain in different parts of the world:
In Europe.
Gibraltar. M alta, Gozzo. Comlno, To-
nian Islands, and Helegoland.
In .america.
Upper and Lower Canada, Cape Bre>
ton island, Prince Edwards Island,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, New
foundland, the Bahamas. Jamaica, An
|tigua, Montserrat, Nevis, st. Christie
pher, Barbuda, Anguilla, Tortola. Vir-
gin Gorda, Anegada. Dominica, st.
Lucie, st. Vincent, Granada, Barb ADDE'S,
Tobago, Trinidad. the Bermudas, De-
marara, Berblce, Essequibo, Guiana,
Honduras, Mosquito Shore, is now
{1s46) about being stolen.
In africa.
Cape of Good Hope, and now. { le46,
the whole coast of Natal, $4,000 square
miles, to be stolen and annexed; Cape
Coast Castle, city of 5000 inhabitants,
on the Gold Coast; establishment in
Guinea and Senegambia, such as forts
A pollonia and Amanahea; Dix Cove, and
Smonda, Kingdom of Ashante; Anima>
Doe, on Gold Coast; Cormantine or
A amsterdam, in Fantie, leagues from
Cape Coast; Fort Vinebah and fort
Tantumquerry. little East of Cape
Coast; Fort James, in the Kingdom Of
Accra; Fort William, in the Kingdom
of Juda; Sierra Leone, one Of the finest
ports in Africa, over 5000 inhabitants;
Island St. Marie, near the mouth of the
Gambia; Vintam and Ionkakonda, on
the right bank Of the meuth Of the Gam
bia, 27O miles from the same, in the
Kingdom of Yani; Pisanis, Kingdom Of
Yani; Island Of Ascension; Island Of
St. Helena; Island of Mauritius, Isle
de France J; two groups Of small islands,
called Seychelles and Amorantes, % in
number, some of them ls miles long and
AZ wide; a port called Lonquez, in the
Autavarts country, in the Island Of Mad.
agascar.
In .Asia.
Hong Kong and Island Of Chusan,
China, not yet given up by the British,
and probably never will be; Ceylon;
New Holland; Van Dieman's Land;
Kingdom Of Assam, with Its three prov>
iaces of Kainroup, Assam and Sodiya,
extending the whole length Of the
Bourampourtre river, which receives 60
tributary streams.
The Indoo Chinese.-Engllsh possess
ions robbed from the Birman Emperor
and King Of Siam:
Provinces of Garraou, Katchar, Kas-
say, Arakap, with several Islands, Mar
taban, Dye, Tavai, Tannasserim, with
the Merqui Islands, extending from north
to south, l6O leagues, viz: Muscos, Ia
val, Kings Island, Mel, Savannah. St.
Mathew, Merqui, Malacca. Wellesley,
two provinces on the peninsula Of Mall
acca, with the Islands Of Pulo-P enang
and Prince of Wales; Islands Of Singa-
pore; Hindostan, with 80 900, 900 peo-
pie, comprising o,5OO square leagues.
$50, 900, 900 revenue, and an army Of
100000 men.
The British Presidencies are,
LIST. Calcutta, with 10 provinces and 80 cities.
Cd. Madras, 8 81
Sd, Bombay, 20
The foregoing possessions have the
astounding extent Of 6,646,1ll square
miles, and l30, 900, 600 of inhabitants -
Add to the above the eighteen Provinces
in vassalage to the British, from Allab-
Abad to Bedjapour, with their 46 cities
and 756 900 square males-33 900, 900 Of
souls. and $40, 900, 900 revenue, and an
army of 70, 900 men! and It makes I, ,6O2,-
Ill square miles, and l33, 900. 900 of in~
habitants!
These are the countries aud the num-
Der of people the British have civilized,
and we have curtailed the list because
of the small size Of our paper, but there
Is enough to show that they huve appro-
priated nearly eight millions of square
miles Of foreign territory, containing a
population Of one hundred and thirty mil.
lions of souls!
When wo reflect upon the wholesale