military stations as well in deciding upon the quantities of lands to be granted to each as in the selection of the parties to whom the grants are to be made. However, hoping that if men who have distinguished themselves by their zeal and courage should apply, you will give them a decided preference.

Also in expectation that if the families of any persons who have fallen or been wounded should apply you would give them a preference also.

His Excellency will have great pleasure in considering with a wish to support every suggestion you can make as to the augmented production of grain by creating local markets or indeed by taking a certain quantity delivered at Algoa Bay, if you deem it wise, at a moderate price.

His Excellency authorises me to state that such farmers as have settled by your encouragement around the military posts according to the little field works you have caused to be created, His Excellency sees nothing that will prevent his adopting your suggestion as to granting the lands of which temporary possession has been given by you, with a certain reservation of Rent to the Crown, and of such portions of land as may be wanted for military or public civil purposes. The terms will be a lease for ever, and His Excellency will pay great attention to your suggestions as to suspending of payment for a term of years not exceeding

seven.

His Excellency concurs with you that the occupation and population generally must be delayed until the situations around the military stations are planted, and His Excellency still retains his opinion that if possible in all grants a joint occupation should be attempted and habitations built with a view to common defence.

His Excellency will be obliged to you for any suggestions as to the local means of rewarding such persons as you have recommended for their zeal and courage.

His Excellency will immediately send a land surveyor or at least as soon as one can be obtained.

His Excellency has not yet received from the different Landdrosts the returns of those who have suffered on the late occasion.

His Excellency stated the extent of a loan lease as a guide to your discretion in the future distribution of lands in the recon

quered countries, but not binding you to that precise extent either more or less at your discretion.

His Excellency remains clearly however of his former opinion that insulated houses only delay civilization and tempt the Caffres to plunder when they are incapable of contributing to the defence of the country.

His Excellency requests also a consideration of the future interests of the Crown may never escape your attention in your explanations with persons willing to settle, but he authorizes you in all situations where it is necessary to encourage building and the plough, to suspend payment for seven years.

Upon Lt. Col. Arbuthnot's suggestion that this letter, which he has read, may not be sufficiently understood by you as authorising establishments in every part of the recovered districts, I have to state that it is His Excellency's intention you should encourage settlers in the Zuurberg or wherever you please, but always as far as possible that you should bear in mind that to encourage grazing and an indolent easy life in the individual is not the public object of His Excellency, but progressive civilization, agricultural improvement, and common defence.

The Landdrosts will furnish you with their instructions if you should require them, containing the usual precautions used in the granting of land to protect the public and to guard against inadvertent injury being done to individuals.

His Excellency will in future direct all civil disbursement shall take place in small Colonial currency according to Lt. Col. Arbuthnot's suggestion.

His Excellency particularly authorizes you to have the lands applied for by Major Cuyler surveyed and valued, but in this, as in all other instances, he relies upon as much rent for the Crown being obtained as is reasonably to be expected. I have, &c.

(Signed) HENRY ALEXANDER, Col. Sec.

[Office Copy.]

Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN
CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 25th May 1812.

SIR,-I am to acquaint you that His Royal Highness The Prince Regent has been graciously pleased to approve of the Appointment of Mr. Edwin Maude to the vacant situation of Searcher of the Customs at the Cape of Good Hope; and I am to desire that you will cause the necessary Authority to be granted to him for the Execution of the Duties of that Office on his arrival in the Colony. I have, etc.

Proclamation by SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

Whereas the important and decisive success which has attended the force placed under the direction of Lt. Col. Graham, Civil and military Commissioner on behalf of His Majesty in the frontier districts, has restored to this settlement all that valuable tract of land situated between the Sunday and Great Fish Rivers, and has also given that Security to the whole of the important districts of Graaff-Reinet and Uitenhage, which was indispensable to their future welfare.

I therefore lose no time in making known to the colonists, that I intend to devote my utmost attention to the improvement of these distant parts of His Majesty's territory, and render them as valuable as their fertility and numerous resources give the best grounded hopes.

The establishment of military quarters, and the payment of the troops and their necessary supplies on the spot, will originate a variety of measures, and a constant communication with the seat of government, that cannot fail to create a new system of things, concentrate the population, so necessary for their common defence and comforts; and found extensive settlements from Algoa Bay, the future naval mart of those quarters, to Uitenhage and GraaffReinet.

It will be my zealous study to maintain tranquillity from all external aggression; introduce all the arts of civilization and improvement that prevail in the other parts of the colony longer settled; and reward, in every practicable shape, the labours of agriculture and active industry.

Given under my Hand and Seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this 29th day of May 1812.

The Agent for the Honourable East India Company having transmitted to His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief, a copy of a letter from Mr. Secretary Ramsay, dated 2nd March, 1812, written by order of the Hon. the Court of Directors, His Excellency has thought proper to direct the following extract to be made public for general information.

Castle of Good Hope, 29th May, 1812.

By command of His Excellency the Governor.

To JOHN PRINGLE, ESQUIRE,

Agent to the Company, Cape of Good Hope.

SIR, The Court having taken into consideration the nature of the commercial intercourse which shall be hereafter carried on with the late French Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, and also with divers other places within the limits of the Company's exclusive trade, have seen it proper to send instructions to the several governments of India, as follows, viz:

:

In consequence of the Isles of France and Bourbon having fallen under the British Dominion, we have seen it proper to enter into an arrangement with His Majesty's Ministers for regulating the trade to and from those islands.

It is intended that the trade between those islands and Great Britain shall be carried on by British subjects, who may chuse to

engage therein, under the usual restrictions which attend the trade of settlements held on colonial principles, with a further limitation, that no ships shall sail to the islands except from London, and without being furnished with a licence from the Company, and no goods or commodities, the produce of the islands, shall be exported therefrom, except directly for London, there to be landed, and sold at our sales in common with other privileged goods, except to the Cape of Good Hope and India, in return for goods received at the islands from those places as noticed in the next paragraph of the present dispatch.

As a supply of Indian commodities is essential to the comfort of the inhabitants of the Isles of France and Bourbon, and they are entitled to every indulgence compatible with the non-infraction of the colonial principle, we had it in contemplation, that the East India Company should supply the islands with Indian goods, in like manner as the Cape of Good Hope is supplied, and subject to other regulations, should any be considered necessary for the complete attainment of the proposed object; but as we have not finally determined on this point, and it is possible that the inhabitants may suffer inconvenience from delay, we desire you to issue a licence for permission to carry Indian goods to the islands, for the consumption of the inhabitants, to any persons who may apply for the same, and that those persons be allowed to import into India from the islands, any articles the produce of the islands, or of any other places, except Europe and North America.

It must be clearly understood, that the Indian goods are to be imported into the islands for internal consumption only, as such goods cannot be exported from these islands to England without the direct violation of the act of navigation, and of the licence from us, which alone will be the sanction for any British ship trading within our exclusive limits.

In the Packet, we transmit a copy of the licences which we have seen proper to issue on this occasion, and which also allows a trade to be carried on by British ships upon the east coast of Africa, and the west coast of America, viz. for ships to proceed to all ports and places on the west coast of the continent of North and South America, and on the east coast of the continent of Africa, and in the Red Sea within the Straits of Babelmandel, and to all islands and places in the Pacific Ocean, and to the ocean to the eastward of Africa, save and except all places whatsoever between the 60th