Of that sort of fame whic...
Of that sort of fame which alone he seems qualified to relish, the uoble Governor of our colony at the Cape of Good Hope is likely, we suspect, to reap a very plentiful harvest. Some numbers of the newspaper edited under his Lordship's auspices, andl published in September last, are now befGre us; and ameng those of their contents which bear the sanctionof Lord CHARLES SOM ERSET, are two articles characteristic enough of the spirit of his Excellency s administration. One is a manifesto, offering a reward of 5oo rix-lollars for the apprehenision of EDWARDS, whose case has been frequently before our readers, and who had been so wicked as to run away from his gaolers when they were carrying him off to be transported. Because he. strove to hide himself, and escape the cffect of* this most lenient and salutary judgment, the above reward was offered by the noble Governor for his re-capture ; and, as we learn froml the wor(ds of the proclarmation itself, extraor- dinary methods -wereemployed to have it promulgated throiugh every part of the Hottentot world. Poor nDW ARDS was in fact re-taken. His attempt afterwards to destroy himself in con- sequence of the determination of the Governor to carry the sentence into 4ffect, has been already mentionedl. The second article in these papors to which we shall refer is, a Govern- ment advertisemnent, specifying certain lots of property- to wit, old buildling materials for sale, and directing ap- plication for particalars to be made-to wvhom, Oh, reader? Why, to the Government Inspector, one Mr. WILLIAIt JONES. Anid wlho may this Mr. WILLIA,f JONEs have beefn, wlhen hearing his proper appellation ? No other than a Mr. OLIVER, who had exercised a different species of inspection untler His MAJESTY'S Government in this country-being, indeed, the famous Oliver the S.,y! Forthisdelectableproteg6 of tlheLord CHARLES, it is reported to us that two or thrce places have been actually created, and one of the places bearing close alliance to the inquisitorial nature of his first profesaion; for by it he is enabled to prevent the slightest alteration or improve- ment on the premises of aniy of His 'MAJESTY'S subjects in South Africa,nay, the drivingof a single nail into the wall- until he shall think proper to sanction such important, per- haps dangepous, undertakinigs ; that is, until he shall have exacted his surveyor's fee. Verily Lord CHARLES is a monstrous goo(I Governior, and Mr. OLJVER is, to His Ex- cellency, a mighty suitable subject.