By the same Author, 
HINTS 
ON 
EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
A SMALL pamphlet under this title having been first published in August 1819, and 
animadverted upon in the Quarterly Review for November following, in a manner little 
becoming an honest reviewer, the author considers it due to himself, as well as to those 
readers for whom that pamphlet was intended, to make use of the present opportunity to 
offer a few words on the subject ; although the motives of that writer rendered him too 
despicable to require an earlier notice. 
Just before the close of that year's session of parliament, the author was, unexpectedly, 
solicited to give before a committee of the House of Commons, which was then sitting on 
the subject of the Poor-laws, some evidence tending to the question of emigration as a 
relief to the distressing increase of pauperism from want of employ, which, at that time, 
appeared very prominent among our national evils. The main points of this evidence, 
which lasted nearly three hours, were : — that a distinct English colony might be formed 
in the easternmost part of the territory of the Cape of Good Hope, in the district of 
Zuureveld ; that the nature of the country, the soil, and climate, were such as to present 
a fair prospect of success to an industi'ious settler ; that this district would contain several 
thousand emigrants ; and that, if more land should be required, it might be purchased 
from the Caffres; that, on the northern boundary of the Cape colony, there was, if 
required, a fine country, of unlimited extent, capable of receiving any number of settlers. 
This Committee made its report to the House in a day or two afterwards ; and, 
immediately, a grant of 50,000/. was voted, to convey the new settlers. The affair 
became far more popular than had been expected, and persons of a higher class than had 
been originally intended, were eager to accept the offers of land in the proposed settle- 
ment. The author, anxious that in an affair of this moment, his opinions might not be 
interpreted by a hasty and unprepared evidence, drew up the above pamphlet with a view 
of stating more clearly his ideas on the subject : and intended, by entitling them ' Hints,' 
to point out the light in which they were to be viewed, (p. 37.) How far they have 
guided the parties to whom they were addressed, the author will not pretend to say ; but 
thus much is evident, that they were not in themselves injudicious, since measures have 
been adopted which coincide exactly with many of the principal suggestions, and which 
he was the first to advise and bring into notice : such as placing the new colony in the 
Zuureveld or Albany, (p. 20, 21. 28); fixing the town on the Kowi river, because this 
