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/laves imported within the fame period, amounted to 
5,977,535 rix-dollars 7 flt. or 1,195,507!. 3s. _6d. cur¬ 
rency. Thus we fee how great the balance of trade is 
againft the colony. 
The revenues of the colony are derived from the fol¬ 
lowing fourcesj viz. land revenue arifing from rents of 
the colonial farms belonging to the government, which 
are in number 1974; places for grazing cattle taken by 
the month, and falt-pans ; duties on grain, wine, and 
fpirits, levied at the barrier; transfer duty on fale of 
immoveable eftates ; duty arifing from the fale of build- 
ino-s on loan farms ; public vendue duty ; fees received 
in°the fecietary’s office on regiftering the transfer of pro¬ 
perty; cuftoms; port fees ; poftage of letters ; feizures, 
fines, and penalties; licences to retail wine, beer, and 
fpirituous liquors; interefl of the capital lent out 
through the loan-bank ; and duty arifing from damped 
paper. The whole amount of this revenue in 1801 was 
90,147.1. 13s. 4d. This revenueis applied to the payment 
of falaries on the civil eftablifiiment, the expences of the 
feveral departments, the repairs of government build- 
iners, and the contingencies and extraordinaries of the co¬ 
lony ; and during the government of lord Macartney, 
the revenue was more than adequate to the expenditure. 
The members of the court of juftice at the Cape are 
chofen out of the burghers of the town. The fifcal, 
who is the public accuftr in criminal matters, and the 
fecretarv of the court, are the only perfons-polIelTed of 
legal knowledge. The office of fifcal, one of the molt 
important in the colony, confided under lord Macart¬ 
ney’s edablidtment, of the principal and a deputy, a 
clerk, two bailiffs, two jailors, eight condablcs, and 
nineteen Malays. The whole expence to government 
was under 10,000 rix-dollars ; the court of judice and 
fecretary’s office amounted to about the fame fiim; fo 
that the adminidration of judice cod the government 
about 4000]. derling a-year. The court of commilla- 
ries for trying petty fuits, not exceeding 40!. and for 
matrimonial affairs, or granting licences, confids of a 
preddent, vice-preddent, and four members, wltofe dtu- 
ations are honorary and biennial. The “Weefkam- 
mer,” or chamber for managing the effedts of minors 
and orphans, is one of the original inditutions of the co¬ 
lony, and it is managed by a prefident and four members, 
a fecretary and feveral clerks. For the fupport of Uiis in- 
ditution, all orphan property, palfing through the cham¬ 
ber, luffers a reduction of 7} per cent, upon the capital. 
The edablilhed religion of the colony is Calvinifm, 
or the reformed church. Other lefts are tolerated ; the 
Lutherans have a church ; a Methodid chapel has been 
lately built; the Moravians have a church ; but the 
Malay Mahometans, being refufed a church, perforin 
their public fervice in the done quarries at the head of 
Cape-town. The clergy are luitabiy provided for, and 
generally refpefted; and they rank next to the prefident 
of the court of judice in town, and the landrod in the 
country. Befides their clerical duties, they have alfo 
the direftion of the funds for the relief of the poor ; 
which are railed by weekly donations at church, by le¬ 
gacies, and by the fums which the church demands on 
the emancipation of daves. The amount of the funds 
belonging to the reicrmed church in Cape Town, in 
1798,"was 22,i68l. 8s. 8d. and the fubfidence granted 
to tile poor was 1112I. 17s. 1 he funds of the Lutlie- 
ran church were 14,829!. 13s. 2d. and the relief granted 
to the poor 194I. 9s. zd. 
The citadel or cadle is a regular pentagon fort, with 
two ravelins and lome other outworksj lurrounded by a 
wet ditch : but it is fo injudicioully fituated, tliat though 
it commands the town and part of the anchorage, it is' 
itfelf commanded by the ground rifing from it in a dope 
to the Devil’s hill, which therefore renders it indefenli- 
ble. This dope is now occupied as high as the cimi- 
mencement ot tijeperp ndicularrocky fide of the Devil’s 
hill, by various redoubts, batteries, and block-houles, 
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commanding each other, and the advance ground to the 
cadle, all of whicli were added by general fir James 
Craig. He alfo made fome other important additions to the 
fortifications of this place. Fort Knokke is connefted 
witli the citadel by a rampart drawn along the ffiore, 
called the fea lines, defended by feveral batteries, mount¬ 
ed wdth heavy guns, and fiirnifiied with ovens for heat¬ 
ing fiiot. Within thefe lines is a powder magazine and 
a long range of low buildings tliat were coin'erted by 
the Englifli into a general hofpiml, ivith lodgings for 
the infpeftor, dore-keeper, and apothecary to tlie forces. 
On the wed of Table Bay are three drong batteries, viz. 
the Rogge-Bay battery, the Amderdam batteiy, and 
the Cliavonne battery, all tlie guns of w liicli bear di- 
reiftly upon the anchorage. There is alfo a fmail bat¬ 
tery, called tlie Moiiille, commanding the entrance of the 
bay. A little fartlier, on a fniall fandy cove, a work is 
thrown up with a few light guns and a heating furnace, 
for preventing a landing at this place, which is further 
impeded by three anchors dxed acrofs the inlet. At 
Camp’s Bay, on tlie wedern coad of the peninful.a-, 
there are alfo a few fmall batteries, and a military poll: 
on tlie height above it, direftly between the 'Fable 
Mountain and the Lion’s Head. An army landing here, 
aijd at Tliree Anchor Bay, miglit take the town and all 
the batteries in their rear; or, by a more important 
movement, might get pofTeffion of tlie Lion’s Rump, 
from wlience, witli a few liowitzers, tlie town and cita¬ 
del, and the drong batteries on the wed fide of 'Fable 
Bay, would be completely commanded. Tills hill has 
the very great advantage of not being commanded by 
any other point. Sir James Craig propofed to erect a 
citadel on this eminence, with fuitable appendages and 
accommodations, which would, in his opinion, be ably 
defended in time of war by 1200 men; and would ren¬ 
der the town, the batteries, and the cadle, untenable 
by an enemy, all of which might be totally dedroyed 
from this height in twenty-four hours. 
Befides the cadle and tlic forts, tlie public buildings 
of Cape Town are, a large and well candiufted barrack 
for two thoufand men; a quadrangular building with 
an area in the centre, where the government daves are 
lodged to the number of about four liundred ; tlie re¬ 
formed church, wliich is a fpacious and neat dnffiture ; 
the Lutheran church; the town-houfe; the court of 
judice; anda theatre. The Cape of Good Hope is dtu- 
ated in S. lat. 34° 29'. E. Ion. 18° 23' 15". Cape 'Fown 
is in S. lat. 33°55'42” E. Ion. 18^23' 15". 
GOOD-MA'NNERS, f. Polite behaviour.— Good- 
manners is fuch a part of good fenfe, that they cannot be 
divided; but that which a fool callcth good-breeding- 
is the mod unmannerly thing in the world. Marq. ofHalij. 
GOOD' NOW, interj. In good time ; d la bonne heure, 
A gentle exclamation of intreaty. It is a low word; 
Good-now, fit down, and tell me, he that knows. 
Why this fame watch ? Shake/peare. 
A foil exclamation of wonder.— Good-new, good-now, how 
your devotions jump with mine ! Dryden. 
CtOOD'-WIFE, f. Midrefs of a iiouie, but below a 
gentlewoman: 
By this had chanticleer the village cocke 
Bidden t\\<s good-wife for her maids to knocke. W. Browne. 
It fci'ves the maiden female crew, 
The ladies and thcgcod wives too. Suckling. 
GOODE'NIA,yi [fo named by Dr. Smitli, prefident 
of the Linncean Society, from the Rev. Samuel Goodenovgh, 
L.L.D. F.R.S. treafurer of the Linnaian bociety, author 
of Obfervations on the Britilh Species of Carex, &c.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order inono- 
gynia, natural order of catnpanulacex, JuJj. 'I’he gene¬ 
ric ciiaradfers are—Calyx; perianthium dve-leaved ; 
leadetb equal, awl-lhaped, erect:, permanent. Corolla ; 
one-petalied, fuperior; lube cloven on the upper due 
from 
