Kentucky Gazette

Mr Burchell, the Traveller.-Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated the 26th April last :-I have the satisfaction of announcing to you the safe return to this place of that very extraordinary young man, Mr. Wm. Burchell. after an absence of more than six years, travelling and exploring the extreme parts of south Africa. The dangers and privations he has thus voluntarily endured, to gratify his thirst after knowledge, far surpasses all I have ever met with in the history of other travellers for similar purposes. The joyful and interesting reception he met with from his old friends and acquaintances at the Cape who went out to meet him, and who had several times given him up as lost, was most gratifying to his feelings, and must also afford great consolation to his relatives and friends in England. He has brought home with him an immense collection of the natural productions of that heretofore unexplored country, particularly birds; and as there is in an eminent degree combined in this man the philosopher, the botanist, the artist and the scholar, the public may fairly calculate upon receiving, on his return. information of the most valuable and interesting description. I understand he is preparing to sail with the first ship; he may therefore be expected in England about the latter end of August