The Sun. — 1823-01-01 (London, England)

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.  By the Venus, KILGOUR, which arrived on Monday from the Cape of Good Hope, letters have beef► received 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 December spoke the Adamant, homeward bound from Calcutta, in lat. 34. 6., long. 34. 48., all well. The following is an extract of a, letter brought by the Venus, dated Cape Town, October 16-:  " Our last accounts from our settlement at Graham's Town continue to be of a very unsatisfaCtory kind. The settlers there are Very discontented with their. situation, and such as have been able to raise the means and obtain the Governor's permis sion, are rapidly quitting the place. In the environs of that settlement the Caffres have lately made some dangerous incursions, and several of the settlers who had taken up their habi-1 tations in the immediate vicinity, bad, it was reported, fallen victims to the savages. This had also been the case with some individuals who had imprudently ventured in the woods, for the purpose of hunting, and who have not since been heard of, but it was feared had be"en murdered, as traces of a party of Caffres having been in the direction of their route, were discovered by the party who were sent in pursuit of the absentees. To add to the inconveniences of those settlers residing in the outskirts of Graham's Town, hostilities are stated to have taken place between two of the Caille tribes, in their neighbourhood, and several cattle had been carried off at various times by the marauding parties of the combatants in their pursuit of each other through or near to the European settlements. Two muskets had also been stolen from the house of one Minim, Whose 'residence was on the borders of the Hottentot country. Some of the settlers, however, On this side of Graham's Town, had succeeded in manuring, and, in somemeasure, cultivating several phits 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 impregnation of salt-petre in the ground is very strong, andt7.eeedingly difficult to get rid of.  " Alf hope of civilizing the Caffres. is now given over : the national feature of this people is ferocity, and they ,do not possess any of that uncultivated shrewdness which has heen so much oh4erved in many tribes and nations of savages. They are very eruel, and without any, ideas of society, or: any apparent wish te know.more than their rude state of life has already taught them ; and our settlers'ilave.now givfn over all thought of attempting. to :obtain.their friendship, and are only anxious to guard themselves against the consequences of their :animosity.  " The tribe of Kia King is however some exception to this rifle. This Chief,' ever Since be has obtained his authority, has been very anxious to be upon sociable and intimate terms with the English; and has rendered us all the assistance in his power to check the atrocious inroads and daring depredations of the natives ; and through his means frequently droves of cattle, belonging to the settlers, which would otherwise have been inevitably lost, have been recovered.—ln' return for these favours, he b?is received considerable presenti from the Governor, as well as from some of our principal settlers; 'but although his tribe is thus somewhat seciable, no hope is entertained that any considerable intercourse will ever be carried on between the European settlers and the natives. I should here mention the Portion of country held by them comprehends the Most fertile, u well as the most barren part of the country."