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Married.] J. Bishop. esq. of Woburnplace, Russel-square, to Emily, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Berkeley, of Writtle.-C. Lean, esq. merchant, of Fenchurch-street, to E. C. Proctor, of Walthamstow, eldest daughter of T. P. esq. of Stamford Hill.-At Chelmsford, at the Friends' Meeting House, Mr. J. Gibson, of Saffron Walden, to Anu, eldest daughter of the late Mr. R. Marriage.

Died.] At New Sampford Parsonage, 68, the Rev. W. Lee, D.D.

At Chelmsford, 78, Lady Camilla Robinson, sister to the Earl of Tankerville.Mrs. Chipperfield, wife of Mr. J. C. watch maker. Mr. R. Kemball, formerly of Langham Mill, near Dedham.

At Colchester, J. Maria, wife of Mr. Seaman, master of an academy.-Miss A. Lodge, daughter of the late H. L. esq. formerly chief magistrate of the borough.Mrs. Stuart.

KENT.

Above 60001. has been recovered in chancery, by the officers of St. Nicholas Parish, in Rochester, for the poor, and they expect to realize near 16,000 more, from Sir John Hayward's charity.

Sept. 8. A handsome new church was consecrated at Chatham, by the bishop of Oxford.

Married.] At Preston, next Wingham, Lieut. Sankey, R.N. to F. Elizabeth, niece of W. Harrison, esq.-Mr. T. Kent, surgeon, of Sheerness, to Miss Green, of the Navy Arms public-house, also of Sheerness.

Died.] At Canterbury, 38, Mr. E. Austen. Suddenly, Mr. Hayman, 60.—Mr. G. D. Tritton, 21, only son of the late H. T. esq. He was a youth of blameless life and manners, and had been successful in his studies for the profession of surgery.—Mr. T. Hart, wine merchant, 59.-The eldest daughter of Mr. H. Christian, chemist, 17.

At Maidstone, suddenly, 82, Mr. J. Sothern, late of Charing.-In her 88th year, Mrs. Holmes.

At Tenterden, 31, Miss M. Goble. Mrs. Leigh, wife of Mr. H. L. saddler.

SUSSEX.

Married.] At Broadwater, Sir T. D. Hesketh, bart. of Rufford Hall, Lancashire, to Miss Allamand.-A. Roberts, esq. of Lewes, to Mrs. Woolley, relict of the late J. C. W. esq. of Canterbury.-At Steyning, Mr. Grant, surgeon, of Arundel, to Miss Young.

Died.] At Lewes, of a decline, 19, the eldest son of Mr. Baxter, printer.

At Chichester, in the prime of life, F. Guy, esq.

At Brighton, Mr. M. Gibson, formerly card-maker to the late king. He had been in possession of considerable property, but latterly was much reduced. He was discovered drowned on the beach, and as he

had been subject to fits of despondency, a verdict was returned accordingly.

At Arundel, Mrs. Lane, wife of Mr. L. surgeon.

At Hastings, W. Clay, esq.

At Storrington, 76, Col. H. Bishop, youngest son of Sir Cecil B. bart. of Barham Park.

At Felpham, in his 65th year, Mr. E. Peachep, officer of excise.

HAMPSHIRE.

The pillar for the gas burner to be erected at Southampton is to be 28 feet in height, and will not only command the entrance to the town, but be visible from the Isle of Wight, and serve as a mark for vessels in the river.

Married.] Lieut. Gen. Orman, late of the Royal York Rangers, to Miss E. Howard, youngest daughter of R. H. esq. late of Southampton. Mr. J. Lee, merchant, of Portsmouth, to Miss Hiscock.-Mr. G. Bishop, of the dock-yard, Portsmouth, to Miss A. Cumliu, of the Halfway-houses.Died.] At Winchester, Mrs. Holdsway, of the Nelson's Arms.

At Southampton, Mr. J. Sweetingham, master and owner of an Irish trader.

90, at Portsmouth, Capt. S. Mansfield, paymaster of detachments.

In Guernsey, 58, J. Condamine, esq. late advocate general of the royal court. At Titchfield, suddenly, Mr. R. Tapper, of the Eagle Inu.

At Ryde, in his 22d year, W. L. Woollaston, esq.

WILTSHIRE.

Married.] At Donhead, St. Mary, the Rev. T. Walsh, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Walsh, of Bath, to Arabella, 2d daughter of the late Rev. G. Jackson, D.D. rector.At Mere, the Rev. R. Howell, to the youngest daughter of F. Fangoin, esq. of Wolverton-Mr. Penny, of Glastonbury, to Harriett, eldest daughter of J. Seale, esq. of Milbourne-house, in this county.

Died.]At Minal, near Marlborough, at the Rectory House, the Rev. C. Francis, rector, a prebendary of Sarum, and acting magistrate for the county.

Mrs. Rowden, of Herdcott, near Salisbury.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

Married.] F. Drake, esq. to Miss C. Bacon, both of Wells.-At Holcombe, Mr. W. Parsons, of Melksham, to Lydia, 3d daughter of E. Green, esq.-The Rev. R. Earch, vicar of Shelverton, &c. to Miss Isabella Elphinston, of Belair, near Plymouth.

Died.] At Bath, 71, Signor Cherubini, a native of Rome, and many years professor of the Italian language.- Ann, wife of Capt C. Jones, R.N.-In his 80th year, W. Galway, esq. of Mallow.-Mrs. Ferrers, widow, late of Badesley-house, Warwickshire. Mr. R. Carpenter, coal merchant.

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merchant. In his 61st year, Mr. J. Clark, By the bursting of a blood-vessel, Mr. W. grocer. 19, the only daughter of P. Neale, esq. of Tallerton-hall, Nottingham.

DORSETSHIRE.

Married.] G. C. Loftus, esq. son of Gen. L. to Catharine, widow of the late F. W. Schuyler, esq. of Woodland-house.-Mr. Broadmead, solicitor of Langport, to Miss Hutchings, of Sherborne.

Died.] At Dorchester, 21, the only daughter of R. Henning, esq.

At Sherborne, 70, the Rev. C. Toogood. -R. S'one, esq. 3d son of the late Rev. W. S. of Lowbourne-house, Melksham.

The Rev. J. C. Place, eldest and last surviving son of the Rev. H. P. rector of Marnhall.

DEVONSHIRE.

Married.] At Plymouth, T. Bass, esq. purser, R.N. of Woodside, aged 77, to Miss J. Snell, aged 21.-Capt. Devinzer, of the 11th reg. to Sarahı, eldest da ughter of Lieut. Gen. Nelson, of Plymouth Dock-Mr. R. Loosemore, solicitor, to Miss Rendal, both of Tiverton.

Died.] At Plymouth, 2d son of T. Hollingworth, esq. store-keeper of the dockyard.--Mrs. G.Lisle,39.—Mr.W.Lee, 45.--J. Saunders, esq. 60. He was a man of probity and integrity, charitable and benevolent, ever ready to promote plans for the promotion of religion and virtue.

At Moreton Hampstead, 75, Mr. F. Tremlett; parish clerk near 50, and town crier upwards of 30 years.

CORNWALL.

Married] J. Daintry, esq. eldest son of J. Smith, esq. of Foden Bauk, near Macclesfield, to the eldest daughter of J. Heat, esq. of Restormell Park, in this county.-R. Taun. ton, M.D. of Truro, to Anna, youngest daughter of the late Rev. J. Whitacre, rector of Ruan Lanyherne.

Died.] At Launceston, 22, Miss E.Tythe, of Truro; a young lady of engagingmannersand undissembled piety.

At Falmouth, 83, J Bull, esq. formerly commander of a packet on the station.

At Truro, in his 22d year, Thomas, youngest son of J. Vivian, esq; distinguished alike by his proficiency as a scholar and his intelligence and assiduity as a man of business.-

Cocker, saddler.

WALES.

Died.] Af Haverfordwest, 92, Mr. R. Rees. This veteran had served in the fleet under Admiral Hawke: was at the taking of Bellisle, Martinico, St. Lucia, &c. and was on board the Dragon, at the taking of the Havannah, where he lost an arm.

P. Lewis, esq. of Downton Hall, Radnorshire, many years an active magistrate of that county.

SCOTLAND.

Married.] At Edinburgh, H. M. Warter, esq. of Sibberscript, Salop, to Elizabeth, the only daughter of the late Mr. Mungo Park.

Died.] At Lawrence Kirk, 68, Mr. Charles Stivers; of first-rate mechanical ingenuity, The late Lord Gardenstone, founder of the village of Lawrence Kirk, brought him to that place and introduced him to notice as a maker of snuff-boxes. Originally he was a joiner to the late Sir J. Nicholson, of Glenbervie. His boxes were so well executed, that all imitations fell short of their neatness, polish and accuracy.

At Edinburgh, J. Hervey, esq. of Hawthorn, Berks; a president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, and assistant to Dr. Hamilton, physician of the Royal Infirmary. His death was occasioned by a puncture which he received while inspecting the morbid appearances of a dead body.

IRELAND.

A new bridge is to be erected across the Liffey, from the new road leading to the Royal Hospital, to the opposite side, nearly fronting the entrance into Phoenix Park.

The county of Limerick has been the seat of resistance of oppression within the month, and several persons, not the most blameable, have fallen victims to popular feeling; among others R. Going, esq.

Married.] Lord Edward Chichester, 2d son of the Marquis of Donnegal, to Amelia daughter of H. Grady, esq. of Merion Square, Dublin.

Died.] At Somerville House, county of Meath, 43, Marianne, wife of Sir Marcus Somerville, bart. and M.P.-At Palmeston near Limerick, Mrs. Bucknor, widow, at the age of 112.

TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c.

We shall still feel obliged to our Greenock Correspondent if he will favour us with the promised specimens of the trottel plant.

We shall also be glad to hear further from the gentleman wh's called at our office in June, and promised important information relative to Junius.

Some subscribers request information relative to the disposal of the money collected for a monument to Locke, and among the directors of which appeared a Mr. Mortimer · We hope our poetical readers will accept this month of the News from Parnassus, and some other articles which have left no room for our usual poetical columns.

We repeat our invitation for local anecdotes of the curious Houses. The next will be Dryden's, at Chesterton; Newton's, at Wolstrope; Prior's, at Downing Hall; and Cowley's, at Chertsey. As soon as eight have appeared they may be had separately at one shilling each.

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. 361.]

DECEMBER 1, 1821.

[5 of Vol. 52.

CHESTERTON, THE BIRTH-PLACE OF DRYDEN,

This Mansion, the seat of the Dryden family, and of the late Sir John Dryden, was the birth-place and occasional residence of the first poetical genius in our language. It was situated on the western side of the great North road, near Kate's Cabin, about four miles north of Stilton; but was burnt down a few years after the present drawing was made. Under the head "Stepheusiana,” in a subsequent page, we have inserted an original letter of the last Lady Dryden, giving some curious and unpublished anecdotes of the member who conferred lustre on the family, and its interesting details supersede the necessity of our making further observations.

For the Monthly Magazine. COMMUNICATION from one of the SETTLERS, relative to the New British Colony in SOUTHERN AFRICA.

HE district called the new colony Tis bounded to the southward by the Boshmans river, on the eastward by the sea, on the north by the Great Fish river, and to the westward by the district of Graaf Reynet.

The tract of country on which the settlers are principally fixed, is between the Kowie and Great Fish rivers. There are some between the Kowie and the Boshmans rivers, but they are few in comparison with those on the other MONTHLY MAG. No. 361.

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The Boshmans river was formerly the boundary of the Caffres territory; they were afterwards driven back to the Fish river, and during the war, which terminated a little before our arrival here, they were driven beyond the Keiskamma, which is now the boundary of their possessions. Graham's Town is at present the capital of this district; its situation is commanding and beautiful, but it is intended to remove the seat of government to Bathurst; a spot is fixed upon, streets marked out, and a few mud houses built; the government house or Drosdy is began, and Bathurst may at 3 C

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some future time become a respectable town, but not in this or the next generation.

The spot fixed upon is the finest in the whole colony; a gentle rising hill, the surface diversified with easy swells and falls, the land is very good, plenty of wood, and though the water is rather brackish, habit soon renders it palatable; the prospects around are grand and beautiful, not rising to sublime, but softened to interesting. The district is at present an appendage to that of Ritenhager. The head magistrate, who resides at Graham's Town, is deputy landdrost to the landdrost, or Governor, at Ritenhager; a court of Ibemraden consisting of the deputylanddrost and two provisional magistrates, sit once a month at Graham's Town for the determining of cases under 500 rix dollars. An appeal lies to them from the court of Bathurst, the appellant must deposit 25 rix dollars in the Bathurst court, which is returned to him if he is successful. The courts are composed of military men. the habits acquired in a military life, 1 should think a soldier hardly a fit person to will the destinies and domestic government of so many families, especially where the law is so undefined; here are a thousand families under his controul, as far as fine, imprisonment, and even corporal punishment; and what makes it more disgusting, it is inflicted on the white inhabitants by the hands of a Hottentot.

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The government at Cape Town acts by certain known laws, but here a decision is sometimes said to be shaped by the law of England, and sometimes by the Dutch colonial law. Among the erections already finished at Bathurst, the largest and most conspicuous is a Canteen for the sale of spirits! would any one believe, that in a place like this, wild, uncultivated, and scarcely inhabited, a license for the exclusive sale of spirituous liquors, was sold to a person keeping this Canteen, for nineteen thousand rix dollars, about eighteen hundred pounds sterling, for one year? What enormous profits must this man make to enable him to pay to the government such an immense sum for this privilege of retailing spirits. The restrictions in his favour are very severe; no person is allowed to purchase (under a severe penalty) less than half an aume, (about 19 gallons) either for his own consumption, or to sell; nor are two or three permitted to join and pur

chase that quantity for the use of their families. The consequence of this monopoly may be easily conceived. The restriction of passes feels very galling to people brought up in habits of freedom, and accustomed to go to any part of the country; here no person is a!lowed to go out of the district without a pass from the magistrate: should his affairs lead him to Cape Town, he must get a pass from the governor, which will generally occasion a delay of a month or six weeks. That part of the country of which I have seen the most is the tract of country between the Kowie and Great Fish rivers. The general face of the country is mountainous, lofty, sterile, rugged hills intersected with deep ravines and broken into tremendous precipices, with here and there a fertile valley and some elevated, wild and unsheltered plains; the vallies are of small extent, one of a mile wide is seldom met with, I have only seen one of that width since our arrival; in general they are very narrow and the sides almost perpendicular, fitter for pasturage than tillage; the banks of all the streams are so steep and high, that all the rivers appear to run in ravines; nearly all the wood grows in these dells, the banks of which being so precipitous and deep, render it very difficult to get the timber out. The brow or side of a hill, is never covered with wood as in England; sometimes you meet with a track of bush, which is usually a shrub of the mimosa genus, a kind called rhinoceros wood, with a few other shrubs which serve only for fuel.

The country suffers most from want of water; there are very few springs in the vales, and a few stagnant pools are found on the levels or plains, which during the rainy season are well filled with pretty good water, but in the dry months are totally destitute of this nenessary element. Any person seeking for a spot to settle on must turn his principal attention to water, and carefuly search for a perennial spring, as he is very liable to be deceived by the appearance of many of the brooks during the wet season, when they flow with a plentiful stream, but in summer are quite dry. Having found good water, the next consideration is good land; which also is rather scarce, and convenience of situation for the purpose of irrigation is scarcer still, but without it, it is impossible to carry farming to any extent: it is necessary in every

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the warmest hopes, such was the enthusiasm, that several houses were built in a short time and many more are in progress; the ground, notwithstanding the litle promise it gave of returns, was turned up in various places, and seeds of almost every kind were sown. No toil, no exertions were spared, and every hardship, every privation was

stage of cultivation for the growth of grain, and in gardening it is more important still, to have the power of turning on the water, therefore a situation which will admit this operation, is of the utmost importance; the very necessary objects of good water, good land and convenient situation for forming a farm with any prospect of success, being so scarce, it is impossible many goodborne not only without a murmur, farms can be formed. I shall endeavour to describe the spot upon which we are placed. It is a long lofty hill, the summit a ridge of broken, scattered rocks, about half way down runs a vein of rock, which is covered generally with so about four inches deep, in many places the rock is quite bare; between the top and this vein the soil is a light sandy earth, such as I have heard called in Suffolk a hungry sand; below the stony girdle the same light sand is found, and though near the bottom the soil is more moist it is still sandy; when dug up and exposed to the action of the atmosphere, it exhibits the appearance of black sea sand. The sides of the hill were covered with a very thin coat of grass, a variety of plants of the heath kind and several kinds of aloe, which is particularly fond of a strong barren soil and lofty situation. At the foot of the hill runs a brook of good water, and opposite rises another hill of equal length and altitude, having nearly the same characters; the breadth of the valley at the bottom, between the two hills, is only the width of the brook, for as soon as you cease to descend on one side and step over the brook, you begin to ascend on the other. The hill from its rocky summit and barren aspect, has acquired the name of Stoney Ridge; its aspect is northeasterly here we were pitched. space of about an acre and a half was measured out and assigned to each person, on which to build his house and form his garden; there is no wood on the hill or in the valley, bu tthere are one or two ravines running into the opposite hill from which we are allowed to cut wood for building; the ravines or bloofs as they are called, are narrow, rocky, precipitous and deep; the labour of procuring timber from them is excessive, yet, spite of the difficulty of getting timber; spite of the naked, wild and comfortless appearance of the hills; spite of the barren, bleak, and chilling aspect of all nature around us, whose dreary wildness was sufficient to damp

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but with cheerfulness and alacrity; every one strove to fence in his lot and get it into the best cultivation he was able; no one seemed to fear any thing but being behind his neighbour in industry and application; a scene of general activity was exhibited that promised every thing. What has been the result? the corn came up scantily, but the consoling idea that, next year with manure it will do better, still kept up our spirits. Harvest came, and a total blight crushed all our hopes, dilated our fears, depressed our spirits, and shewed us nothing but dark and dreary prospects of incessant labour, with slen der, uncertain, fickle and precarious remuneration. Our method was to attend to the cattle, the only hope, to become graziers; and indeed the country is far better suited to a pastural than to an agricultural people. Our attention was turned to the cattle, every one took all the means in his power to augment his herd or his flock, and hopes were entertained that when the facility of obtaining rations ceased, we might live by our cattle and sheep. We were deceived: notwithstanding our misfortunes and disappointments from natural causes, our harvest blighted, and our hopes destroyed, we were called on for a tax on every head of cattle and upon our sheep, crowning the whole with a poll tax upon every inhabitant; thus wringing his hard earned pittance from the poor settler, whose undertaking at the best is precarious, full of difficulty and danger, exposed to hardships, privations and distresses, to the attacks of savages, and more ferocious human savages, whose territories border on ours, and, in addition to our other misfortunes, to be ground by the hard hand ofinsatiable taxation. Such is our present state without hope of alleviation.

When first located upon our hill, we were informed that each person should have an hundred acres of land assigned to him independent of his homestead or town lot; but the land in the vici

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