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AN AFRICAN CITY. (ivora the Hampshire Telegraph.) Three naval officers and a party of the Andromach's men, in the York tender, visited the enterprising officer, Lieutenant Farewell, R. N. and party, at the third point Natal, commonly called Port Natal. Chaca, King of that part of the eastern coast of Africa, had given Lieut. Farewell a grant of the harbour and territory surrounding, and demonstrated every civility and attention, and frequently soliciting Lt. Farewell to visit his hutted city, distance about two days walk from the coast. Chaca's force about him consists of from 13 to 15.000 well made fine young men, who are in a state of perfect nudity, and hardly one of them but appears to have been wounded. Their instruments

of warfare are simply a shield and spear, of

u larger size than are nsed by other clans, and only one of each is permitted to each warrior; if inaction a man returns without either, he is instantly put to death. Their mode of fighting, therefore, differs in some measure from the rest of the savage tribes in

Africa, since with this shield they dexterous-1 ly avoid the thrown arrows of their enemies, whose practice is to carry numbers, and then rush in. Chaca's maraudering routs and attacks arc generally nocturnal. The kraalled city is situated on a hillthe foot is walled in with a composition of manure, clay and earth, which cements and becomes durable. The huts resemble bee hives, with no other aperture than the one to creep in at, ditfering widely from those of opposite neighbors, the Madagasscs whose are constructed of bamboo and palm leaves, a floor rising something from the earth, and mats to repose upon. Chaca is a well made man, and above the common stature of his sub

jects; he does not allow of a prurality of

wives, gives to each, as he thinks lit, one;

none dare ask, none dare seek another. His own concubines are numerous; hitherto, so fooii as they prove pregnant, they arc put to death, saying that he is too young to have children now, though he is between 3G and

40 years old; but so exceedingly averse is

he to an overgrown population, that he fre

qucntly orders the infants of those whom he

lias united by his own mandate, to be dc

stroyed. When his subjects do not approach

him with the bow and toss of the head, (the

accustomed ceremonv in his presence,) or

appear to be seeking other wives, naj- for numerous other minor offences, he orders

them instantly to be speared to death. The deaths of those unfortunate subjects since

Lieut. Farewell has been at Natal, average at least 50 a week. There has not been

discovered or heard of, since the commencement of the Caifre country, on the Frontiers of Cape colony, taking the whole extent of the coast to the third degree of south latitude, so consummate, cruel, and perfect a tvrant.

. So extraordinary was the appearance ofj

that noble animal the horse to Chaca and his tribe, that when Lieut. Farewell first arrived among them, the Chaca saw the horse gallop, (mounted.) he offered and actually gave Lieut. Farewell six live bullocks to gallop him again. lie holds the animal in the greatest terror and fear, nor could he be

reconciled to approach it. He has an abun

dance of bullocks, and to prevent their de

struction, from the intrusion of the numer

ous quadrupeds, they arc Kraalled in every

ni'rht. Since our enterprising countryman

has been at Port Natal, Chaca has established two kraals on a rising ground, commanding a view of Lieut. Farewell's location, containing about fifty blacks, (as Chaca says,) for the purpose of protecting him. Much it is feared, although this officer is at present

a favored participant of his grant and attention, that these blacks will be ordered to

embrace an unengaged moment, and himself f ill a victim to the blood thirsty appetite of

this barbarian. Lieut. Farewell, while bar

iering for ivory, is also employed in fortify

ing himseif, having already completed a wall 11 feet high, trenched without and

mounted on it four four pounders; and is erecting a house in the centre, of the mate- ! rials of the country, manure, clay, and earth;

this party now consist at Port Natal of two Englishmen and four Hottentots. There is

5;nothcr enterprising young man of th: name

of Flynn in the service of Lieut. Farewell, about 30 miles from Port Natal. The natives seem much attached to him. He has adopted the custom of the country by going naked, except a piece of cloth round his waist down to the knees, and is qualifying his skin to the lubricity of the natives: he is collecting ivory. Chaca says he is going into the interior, for some moons, to destroy a nation that when he returns, he will proceed to the direction of Delagoa Bay, then he will return, and slay all before him, till he meets the 44 White King,' pointing to the direction of our Cape colony, as he observes, he knows there is a white King, and there shall be but one white King and one black King. He will, however, find a powerful enemy in Gaika King of the Cadres. The vessel Julia, which left Port Natal last December, with ivory obtained in barter for beads and Dungaree, with eleven of the settlers, returning to the Cape, had not been heard of. Lieut. Farewell having been without a communication for some time, and

having made himself proficient in tire language, had requested, and Chaca had allowed him, a party, with one of Lieut. Farewell's men, to travel se an immense country, crossing the territories of Chief Macnsama and Samba, who are under subjection to him,

mil possessing tne country near the banks

of Delagoa Bay, to intimate to such English

vessels as might be there, his exact situation.

I he last accounts from the remainder of

Lieut. Farewell's party are of the 25th of

May all well.

Phc country about Natal is beautiful.

without the necessity of any artificial aid o assist nature: nay the eastern coast of Afri

ca is almost Paradisaical ; the foliage rich

and green, grass thick, highland rich, inter

spersed with picturesque woods, nb.mriding

with game; climate salubrious; not on.

even of Lieut. Farewell's original party vn

and from the trial and appear

ance of the soil, proves admirably ndaoied

tor tne reception ot all the vegetable pro

ductions of every part of the habitable Hobe.

but the voracious tiger and won are innumerable, exceeding all belief, attacking thf

blacks when alone, even in the open day; but what is remarkable, not an instance "i known of their attacking any white man, even in his shooting excursions for daily food. The country abounds also with hip-

popuiamu. i uc skhj oi a large size hippo

potamus was preserved by Lieut, tare well for the British Museum, when the timers and

wolves destroyed the feet. Isolated as he i

from his native country, still that tie which etery loyal Briton feels, however distant from his home, anticipated the gratification of giving some proof of his patriotic feeling

and cntcrpising genius to so celebrated a

national institution. The wolves hero, of;

which a number have been caught in traps, are indiscriminately hermnrihroditical, and

yet generative.

Lieut. Farewell, on proceeding eastward from the first located spot in the neighbor

hood of Middle Point to Point Natal, discovered, jammed among the rocks, eight guns, and a quantity of pig ballast, thrown consid

erably up on the beach; and as they appeared like Indiamen's guns, he was led to believe them to be part of the wreck of the Grosvenor, which was lost manv years ago

in the Political Orrery of those days. Admitting the above, and supposing the author of Junius not to have been discovered, 1 presume amongst the names of Boyd j De Lolme, Francis and others,that of Franklin may ye admitted on the list, (I am not aware ti.at the palm has ever been otlered to him) and if the Letters were produced by a Junto, Franklin should not have the lowest seat. His reflecting power in Natural Philosophy it is needless here to mention he was oik; of its brightest gems.

Having no wish to enter into a series of

Epistles on the subject, and not having the Caeocthes Scribendi, I give yi)u in this Letter the connexion 1 conceive to exist in support of what I have ventured to advance, by subjoining extracts from the Letters of Junius, and life of Franklin: Inciters of Junta?. Jur.ius's Letters were written between the years 17(19 and 1772. (Letter to Sir W. Draper.) "An Academ

ical Education, has given you an unlimited

command over the most beautiful figures of

speech. I will not contend with you in point of composition, you are a scholar, Sir Wm. and if 1 am truly informed you write Latin with almost as much purity as English." "Sudor me then, &c." Jumu in nis dedication savs"Civil liberty may still last the life of Junius." The stamp act i made under one administration, under a second, it is repealed ; and under a third a new mode of taxing the Col

onics is invented, and a question revived,

wi.icn ought to have been buried in oblivion." (Addressed to the King.) "The distance of the Colonies would make it impossible for them to take an active concern in your affairs, if they were as well affected to your Government as they oncepretented to be to vour neron. Thev wpre

. i j ready enough to distinguish between vou and your Ministers. They pleased them-

i'lves with the hope that their sovereign if!

not favorable to their cause at least was impartial. The decisive personal part you took against them had effectually banished that first diii; ction from their minds. "Looking forward to independence they might pos-iMv receive you for their King, 6cc. They left their native land in search of freedom and found it in a desert." Life of Franklin. Franklin was in London from 17G3 to 1775 as Colony Agent for Pennsylvania.

4l know no language hut my own it con

veys more ideas than I shall ever acquire, were it not wiser in me to improve my time in getting senso through that, than waste it

in getting more sounds through 50 langua-

ges, even it I could learn as many" (at the

age ot 13 he had studied Locke on the un

derstands g.)

Franklin fdorod liberty, he says "where

liberty is, there is my country."

As to the Ministerial plan of taxing the

Colonics by Act ot Parliament where thev

have no representation, he was assured it

would prove utterly abominable. During 12 years Franklin did all in hi

power to keep his country on amicable terms

with England, hut the measures of Lord North defeated ill his attempts, and war and

bloodshed followed. About 177o he was

'driven from England by Lord North. On

height twenty, and length one thousand two hundred. Each archway is to have fourteen feet clear width, with frequent communications from one to the other. The depth of the path below the surface of the river is seventy-seven feet. The depth of the water in the ship channel is thirty-four feet, and besides a bed of several feet of

gravel and sand it is computed there will he

a thickness of tifteen tcet of solid clay be

tween the crown of the tunnel and the bed

of the river. A strong arch of brick work is to be built as fast as the excavation advances. The clay removed in the excava

tion of the tunnel is conveyed to a neigh

boring field, and there converted into bricks,

to be replaced, in their new form, in the construction of the arch. The entrances to the tunnel arc to be approached by circular descents of easy declivity,not exceeding four feet in a hundred. The archways are to be constantly lighted with gas. The situation of the tunnel is such that no bridge could be permitted there on account of the obstructionitwouldbetothenarigationofthc river. The expense is estimated at ,vl60, 000, a much less sum than would be required for the erection of a bridge It is expected that it will be finished in three yearo From the N. Y. Spectator. A letter from Thompson's Island, August 1 7, says, "The sickness has indeed bccnlruly alarming. Out of fourteen marines who were transferred from the U. S. frigate Constellation, during the period she remained here I believe the last one died two days since. The West India service is terrible to our navy. The climate is more destructive of life than war, and death comes in a shape more appalling than in a hattle. Within

three or tour years we have lost a far great

er number of brave naval officers, than dur

ng the last war. And what must be gall

ing to their proud spirits, is the fact, that

ilthough their lives are sacriticed in the ser

vice of their country, still they are denied

he warrior s repose on the bed ot glory..

But our commerce is so extensive and val

uable in those seas, that it must be protect

ed ; and the only thing the government can do, is to render the situation of those enga

ged in the anti-piratical service, as secure and comfortable as possible. Would it not

be well to have the ships, of every size engaged on that station, more frequently relieved? Could not the fatal disease be prevented by relieving them before they have

oecn long enough wmun trie tropics to con-

tract it.' Ana is it not an imperative duty

of the government, to abandon that charnel house called Key West? If a naval depot must be kept up in that region, would not Pensacola or some other healthy place on

the coast ot r londa, answer the purpose?

on this coast, it being in a parallel line with i -c rilfllp . f i . . i , , his return to America he was made r

a mem

I ,1 J A .111 11 V- I . H A

. i - . . , , A. ber ot Congress at Philadelphia, and became

r. ,r "7 . "u-a staunch defender of the republic lie

tives about that period informed of a great

ship being on shore, and some white people leaving passed the but Van Reemen was in.

From a Calcutta Paper. DR. FRJLXXLLXAXD "JUJVIUS." Observing in a number of the Bengal

Hurkaru, some time ago, under the article

"Anecdotes of great Men' the introduction ofidied in 1790

the name of Dr. Franklin, and having vcrv

lately perused the life of that truly great character, it frequently struck me his sen

timents were not unsimuar to those of Ju

nius, and I certainly think there arc passages in both that savour much of each other. The observations made bv Fox and Burke relative to Dr. Franklin, in 177G, were examined before the House of Commons, about which time he must have been in the zenith of his talents (three years before Junius appeared) speak in volumes of his nihilities on that occasion, and the strenuous exertions, In; subsequently made, to relieve America from the taxes imposed upon her by Lwrd

North, entitled him to shinr conspicuously

proposed the independence of the Colonies,

wiui n was declared soon after.

He was deputed to the Court of France,

where he remained till the end of the war

in 1783, the French having eventually aided the United States, and England having found

it expedient to cease hostilities, after which

he returned to his native country where he

These arc not the only passages; and cir

cumstanccs that struck me, in comparing the

life and writings of these two rare characters. Amongst others, and not the leastsin-

gular coincidences are the introduction o

persons of the same name. Should you con

sider this commumcatiL worthy of a place

in your paper, you may insert it. A. I.

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.

Tunnel under the Thames. Considerable progress has been made in the digging of the tunnel under the Thames. There are to

be two arch-ways for carriages, and distinc

pathways for foot passengers. The width

Magisterial System. A comparison of the

different effects of the magisterial system of frrkl 1 n - 1 'il f Vr rrl rt n A rPl- V. 1 1 ! j.

ble is extracted from a valuable pamphlet

just published, entitled "Kemarks on the Administration of Criminal Justice in Scotland'

ENGLAND.

Average of Commitments for seven years; j: o n -

timing lijo, - . 13j340 of Convictions - - 8,8G3 of Acquittals, ' - - 2,539 of persons liberated by Grand Jury " - 1,890 of persons sentenced to death, 1,175 of persons executed, 93 That is, the number of convictions is about two thirds of the committals, the remaining third being either liberated by the Grand Jury or acquitted on trial; and the number acquitted by the Grand or Petit Jury, is about half the number ultimately convicted. SCOTLAND. Average of persons tried annually for three years, ending 1823. 273 Of these were convicted, - - 239 Acquitted, - 33 Sentenced to deaths - - 16 Executed, - . 9 That is, the acquittals to the convictions in Scotland, as 37 to 230, or as 1 to 7 yearlv. Whereas, in England, the acquittals by the Grand or Petit Juries, are to the convictioss as 4437 to 8,803, or as 1 to 2 yearly

The Editor of the N. V. Advocate says he is compelled, (by the course which has beeri pursued,) to make common cause with Tv

of the Tuhnel i to be thirty-rive feet, its against his ei:cnues.