Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 12597-h.htm or 12597-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/5/9/12597/12597-h/12597-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/5/9/12597/12597-h.zip) THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 17, NO. 480.] SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1831. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * [Illustration: SWAN RIVER.] SWAN RIVER (See the Engraving) "A view in Western Australia, taken from a hill, the intended site of a Fort, on the left bank of the Swan River, a mile and a quarter from its mouth. The objects are, on the left, in the distance, Garden Island, that on the right of it Pulo Carnac; between the two is the only known entrance for shipping into Cockburn Sound, which lies between Garden Island and the main land; the anchorage being off the island. On the right is the mouth of the Swan River. On the left, a temporary mud work, overlooking a small bay where the troops disembarked. In the foreground tis a road leading to the intended fort and cantonment on the river." Few subjects in our recent volumes have excited more attention than the facts we have there assembled relative to the New Colony on Swan River. The most substantial and agreeable proofs of this popularity have been the frequent reprints of the Numbers containing these Notices, and the continued inquiries for them to the present moment. For the information of such persons as are casual purchasers of our work, we subjoin the numbers: No. 368 and 369 contain the papers (abridged) from the _Quarterly Review_, with the Regulations issued from the Colonial Office; and an Engraved Chart which is more correct than that in the _Q. Rev_. Nos. 410 and 411 contain an Engraved View on the Banks of the River, from an original drawing by one of the expedition; and a copy of Mr. Fraser's Report of the Botanical and other productions of the Colony. No. 430 contains an important Letter from the Colony. No. 464 contains an account (with extracts,) of the first Newspaper _written_, not printed, in the settlement. The annexed Engraving is from a well-drawn lithograph distributed with No. 12 of the _Foreign Literary Gazette_ date March, 1830; the support of which work by the public was by no means commensurate with its claims. The letter-press with which the Engraving was circulated contains little beyond the earliest settlement. The most recently received account is that conveyed through the _Literary Gazette_, a fortnight since; and as no paper is more to be relied on for information connected with expeditions of discovery, colonial matters, &c. we extract nearly the whole of the communication:-- Perth Town, Swan River, Western Australia, Oct. 4, 1830.