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Letter from the REVEREND DR. HALLORAN to the RIGHT
HONOURABLE SPENCER PERCEVAL.

COURTEEN HALL, NEAR NORTHAMPTON, 18th July 1811.

SIR,-I had not the Honor to receive Your Letter of the 11th Inst. till Yesterday, owing to its having been misdirected to Southampton.

I cannot adequately express the grateful Sentiments with which my Mind is penetrated by Your condescending Attention to my Application, and by the Trouble you have had the Goodness to take in communicating with my Lord Liverpool upon the subject of it. I pray Your Acceptance of my Sincere Acknowledgments for this instance of Your Kindness and Consideration.

That Nobleman, I conjecture, can be only partially in possession of the Circumstances under which I quitted the Cape. Were they truly before Him and You, Sir, I dare affirm "that far from justly operating against the Re-appointment I have solicited from His Majesty's Ministers, they would prove an irresistible Appeal to Your Justice, and Humanity, for that very inadequate Redress of the Hardships and oppression to which I was most illegally subjected on that Occasion."

I will forbear to trespass upon your Attention, at present, with a detail of those Circumstances. The whole of them, Authenticated by attested official documents, is now in the Press, and will be brought before Parliament in the ensuing Session.

It was my Hope indeed, as it has been my Endeavour, to obtain Redress, without the Necessity of obtruding my Case on public Notice, That Hope being now at an End, it becomes an indispensable Act of Justice to my much injured family to appeal for Reparation of the cruel Wrongs I have sustained to the Government and Legislature of my Country.

As soon as the Publication issues from the Press, I will beg Permission to submit a Copy to Your Consideration; when I flatter myself" You will find Your Sense of Equity, every benevolent feeling, And every Constitutional Principle of Your Mind, strongly interested on behalf of an injured and oppressed family, who have been most cruelly sacrificed, the Victims of vindictive

Passions and of Laws perverted, and of Power prostituted, for their Gratification!"

I have annexed two additional Addresses from the British Inhabitants of Cape Town, which will evince the persevering Sentiments of that respectable Body of His Majesty's Subjects in my Regard. I have etc.

Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN CRADOCK. DOWNING STREET, 23rd July 1811.

SIR, I transmit herewith the Copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, dated the 24th Ult., inclosing an extract of a Minute of that Board conveying their Lordships' wishes that encouragement should be given for obtaining a supply of Provisions for the Troops stationed at the Cape, within the Settlement, and I am to desire You will take the necessary measures for making the same public within your Government. I have etc.

Letter from LANDDROST STOCKENSTROM to DEPUTY COLONIAL SECRETARY BIRD.

BAVIAANS RIVER, July 26th 1811. SIR,-Upon information I received in the beginning of last week from Captain Hawkes commanding on the Bruintjes Hoogte, and from the Field Cornet Greyling of the Caffres having made several attacks as well in that Division as in this, which would force the Inhabitants as well as the Troops to abandon those Divisions if they did not receive succours from others, and perceiving also by the reports of the Field Cornets in the Divisions of Behind Sneeuberg and the Tarka that vast numbers of Caffres had forced

their way thither under the pretext of merely visiting whom they had not been able to prevail upon to retire, but with great difficulty, and who when they did depart threatened to return whenever they should think proper, I in the first instance gave directions that some men from the Camdebo and Before Sneeuberg Divisions should proceed as soon as possible to the Division of the Zwagershoek and then repaired thither myself, continuing my journey over the Bruintjes Hoogte to this Division with a view to be able to ascertain more fully the state of matters and to adopt such measures as I might have it in my power for the defence of those parts without reducing the Inhabitants to the necessity of quitting them.

Learning upon my arrival from the Field Cornet Greyling and from the Officers commanding the detachments that the Kaffres had different nights attacked him Greyling, who was in the Zwager's Hoek and Cariga with cattle, and had driven the cattle out of the Kraals but not succeeded in carrying them off, that at C. Botha's place towards evening they had wounded a slave with an assagai whose recovery was despaired of, at which place a Sergeant and ten men of the Cape Regiment with two Dragoons were stationed, and from which person, as will appear by my last reports, the Kaffers have several times stolen cattle; that the Kaffers 14 in number had attempted in the daytime to drive away the cattle of Frans du Plessis, whose place is near Botha's, but had been prevented by the herdsmen; that another party also in the day-time twice attacked the herdsmen at the place of Mr. Van der Byl on the Fish river, and the first time carried off 14, and the second 40 head of cattle, and that they had committed similar depredations upon other Inhabitants of this Division, I wrote a letter to Major Lyster to request he would send reinforcements from the Troops stationed at the Drostdy to the Posts here and at Daniel Coetzee's in the opening between the Zwager's Hoek and the Bruintjes Hoogte, and ordered the Force expected from the Camdebo to be divided at the places of said Coetzee, of Greyling (where Captain Crawford is posted with a detachment of dragoons) and of Botha, for the purpose of patroling between the Zwager's Hoek and the Cariga, by which disposition they may also in case of need afford assistance to the Bruintjes Hoogte. I have also written to the Field Cornet of the Division Behind Sneeuberg to desire he will send hither a Force to the above end as soon as possible, and the Field Cornet in the Tarka

I have directed to keep a Patrol at the extremity of his Division towards the Fish River, in order as much as possible to prevent the Kaffres entering that Division and Behind Sneeuberg. To the Field cornet in the Division of the Zeekoe River I have sent orders to furnish 30 men to serve as a reinforcement or relief as circumstances may require, and the Field Cornets of the Sneeuberg and Rhenosterberg Divisions I have directed to collect their men in order that they may hold themselves in readiness until further notice.

On the Bruintjes Hoogte a party of about 30 Kaffres having among them 5 guns made their appearance in the day-time at the place of L. Erasmus, obliged three white people to withdraw, and stole upwards of 200 head of cattle, exclusive of which they have committed various other petty robberies, which the Landdrost of Uitenhage will no doubt have already reported. Most of the Inhabitants of that part had either already fled or were about so to do, however upon my having pledged myself to render them on this side whatever assistance circumstances will admit of, they have promised Captain Hawkes not to be so hasty in quitting their places, but to unite together for their common defence. The Inhabitants of the Zuurveld who had taken refuge here have removed further up the Fish River, following the same track as those of the Bruintjes Hoogte, and this has led several of this Division to follow their example. Should such as are still left in the Bruintjes Hoogte and here be also obliged to quit their places, the Kaffres will have free access to all the Divisions, and (as in former times) may do much mischief without the possibility of their being exterminated but with great difficulty. This however might have been prevented had the offenders been immediately punished, but on the contrary the other Chiefs, seeing that these depredations are committed with impunity, permit their people to do the same, in the supposition that one is afraid of them. All the robberies and murders which take place in the Bruintjes Hoogte, on and beyond the Sunday's River, and in the Buffel's Hoek are committed by Kaffres subjects of Kyno, Casa, Habana, and Grata, who have united beyond the Fish River about the Biga. On this side again much harm is done by several Kaffre chiefs subject to Gyka, who come in under the pretence of visiting. I have sent a message to Gyka to remind him of his promise to make his people stay at home, as under present circumstances this system of visiting must

be stopped, and indeed by the adoption of forcible means, if cautions and warnings have no effect. I this day intend proceeding along the banks of the Fish River to behind Sneeuberg in order to see whether it be not possible to stop the Inhabitants from abandoning those parts, and induce them to return in order that the arrival of the aid expected from that Quarter may be expedited.

I cannot forbear observing that I consider it a great hardship to expose the people with their wives and children at so great a distance, without being able to afford them a sufficient means of resistance, if the Kaffres, as seems to be their intention, should actually attack these divisions on different sides.

The Troops, as they are for the most part inactive, are held in no consideration whatever by the Kaffres and these entertain, I dare assure you, very erroneous ideas relative to the motives with which they have been stationed. Possibly among the inhabitants are some who coincide in the ideas conceived by the Kaffres.

That Government after the Robberies and Murders committed by the Kaffres during so many successive years should still continue to show so much indulgence it is not for me to judge of, however I cannot relinquish the opinion I entertained last year and the plan I thereupon in one of my letters suggested, which was that I conceived if upon any act of outrage being committed the trace were followed and the perpetrators pursued to the Kraal with a sufficient force, the Kraal then attacked and destroyed and the plunder retaken, without however taking possession of anything belonging to the inhabitants of the Kraal, it would tend to frighten the marauders, without occasioning any open war.

I beg you will communicate the contents hereof to his Excellency the Governor, and excuse the indifference of the writing, as having undertaken the journey on horseback I have not all the requisite materials at hand. I have etc.