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in a beiling fiate, fo as to fill up and pervade 
the whole ; and care muft be taken to keep 
the uppermoft part well covered with it whilft 
it is hot. r 
On the third day, when it will have funk 
about one-third in the pickling tub, the cab- 
bage is taken cut and put cold into cafks con- 
tainins cach about fifteen gallons, and being 
well preffed down, and filed up within three 
inches of the top, one gallon of vinegar, and 
an equal quantity of lime-juice, with 
Ounces of carraway-feeds, four of cafiia or 
cinnamon, and four of allfpice, is povred_cold 
into each cafk. The cafk is then filied up 
completely with fome -of the cold pickle 
taken from the pickling-tub ; after which 
the bung is put in loofely for a day, and then 
fina'ly fecured againft the admiffion of air. 
If it fhould be neceffary to fill up the ul- 
lage after two or three months, it muft be 
done withcold pickle. 
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For the Monthly Magaziae. 
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“REPORT of the CHAIRMAN and COURT 
of DIRECTORS of the SIERRA LEONE 
COMPANY, +ré/pediing the PROGRESS, 
STATE, and PROSPECTS, of the CO- 
LONY of SIERRA LEONE. 
{ Continued from p. 318 of our laft Number.] 
H. Obftru€ions to the Progrefs of the Set- 
tle ment. 
T appears from the preceding hiftory, 
that the colony, in the few firft years 
after its eftablifhment, made fome pro- 
grefs, in fpite even of the war with 
France, and of the want of an efficient 
fevernment ; and that.it acquired the re- 
fpe&t and confidence of the natives, many 
of whom courted its friendfhip ; but that 
the radical defeét of the want of a fuffici- 
ent power in the Government created dif- 
ficulties, of which it is not eafy to calcu- 
late the extent, and with which, as no re- 
medy was applied before O8ober 1800, 
the colony may be confdered as having 
had to ftruggle almoft ustil the prefent pe- 
riod. 
This weaknefs in the colonial govern- 
ment hasled to two infurrections. It has 
tended to lower the Company in the eyes 
of the natives, and thus to invite the at- 
tack on the fettlement : it bas enccuraged 
the growth of immorality: it has retarded 
the progrefs of induftry, cultivation, and 
civilization ; and has made Eurcpeans un- 
willing to enter mro the Company’s em- 
ploy. Thofe who have held the principal 
fituations at Sierra Leone have been com- 
pelled to give their chief attention to the 
redrels of evils, the growth of which 
Report refpedting the Progrefs, State, and Profpels, [June 1, 
ought to have been prevented 3 and inftead 
of being employed in adapting lawsto the 
ftate of the fettlement, and in devifing 
meafures for its benefit, they have been 
occupied in the preiervaticn of its peace, ~ 
and even of their very exifence. 
This deie&t has been done away by ob- 
tainine’a charter of juftice,* as well asa 
force which has been adequate to the 
maintenance of the internal order of the 
izitlement, Many of the evils, however; 
which are to be traced to this caufe, ftill 
exift, and can only be gradually removed. 
The Dire&ors wilf now proceed to 
enumerate the various other canfes which 
appear to them to have obftru&ted the ad- 
vancement of the fettlement. 
A fecond obftacle to its progrefs (an 
evil arifing partly out of that which has 
been recently defcribed, though requiring 
feparate confideration,) has been the un- 
, favourable charaéter of the Nova Scotia 
coloniits. Forty or fifty heads of fami- 
lies have conducted themfelves in an ex- 
emplary manner, and a few individuals 
have fhewn an extraordinary degree of 
zeal for the maintenance of good order. 
A large portion of them, however, have 
proved to be idle, turbulent, and unrea- 
fonable ; and there have been among them 
a few def{perate and defigning individuals, 
who, though as ignorant as the others, 
have been allowed to take the iead. The 
afiumption of the fupreme power had long 
been the objet of thefe individuals ; and 
the neighbouring natives, efpecially ene 
or two of the more unprincipled chiefs, 
had been courted by them, with a view of 
effecting the overthrow of the European 
influence in the colony. The power of 
this Nova Scotian party was broken at 
the time of the late infurrection, when, as 
has been already noticed, feveral of them 
veere killed in the conflict, three were exe- 
cuted, and many more were banifhed. A 
large portion of the more unprincipled 
Nova Scotians have lately been removed 
! 
* The Charter creates the Company’s fet- 
tlement an independent colony 3 authorizes 
the Directors to make laws not repugnant to 
thofe of England ; and to appoint a governor 
and council, who have a.fimilar power of 
making laws, fubje€t to the revifioa of the 
Court of Direfors. Ir places the criminal 
jurifeiGtion in the hands of the governor and 
council; but it appoints a mayor’s court for 
the determination of civil fuits, and a court: — 
of requefts for the recovery of {mall debts. 
right of trial by jury. 
It gives, both in civil and criminal cafes, the 
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