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till a few Weeks ago this Mr. Tredoux received a Letter from Mr. Deputy Secretary Bird, informing him "that His Excellency the Governor was pleased to rescind the Order for his Banishment, which, indeed, it had never been His Excellency's intention to enforce!"

This information I received from the Gentleman who translated Mr. Bird's letter for Tredoux into Dutch, and who even show'd me the same!

This Tredoux is a kinsman of Mr. Fiscal Truter, which may account, in some degree, for this extraordinary Instance of Condescension and Lenity! Shortly after which Tredoux was sent for by Mr. Truter, who asked him: "If he were inclined to dispose of a very pretty and pleasantly situated Residence, which he possessed a few Miles from Cape Town?"

Tredoux replied, "that if he were again allowed to practice as a Notary, he should, of course, remove to Cape Town; and, in that event he would sell his place in the Country!"

Mr. Truter rejoined, "that a Gentleman in a high official Situation, (whom it would be much for Tredoux's Interest to oblige) was desirous to purchase the place, if it would be parted with on moderate terms." And, "that in that Case, He, Tredoux, would be re-admitted to practise."

I offer no Comment on this Statement, but I pledge myself, to bring proof of its Authenticity!

LAURENCE HALLORAN, D.D., Chaplain.

[Enclosure 11 in the above.]

Case No. 6.

Messrs. Charpentier, Riaux, &c. Shortly after the News had been received at the Cape of the unfortunate Issue of the Attack made upon the French frigates in Port South-East, by the four British frigates Sirius, Magicienne, Iphigenia, and Nereide, and of the destruction of the two former and Capture of the two latter frigates by the Enemy, Mr. Charpentier, a French Officer on parole at Stellenbosch, Mr. Riaux, a French dancing Master, of Capetown, and several young Dutchmen of the former place, paraded thro' that Village, having tricolour'd Cockades in their hats, exclaiming "Vive l'Empereur!" and carrying an English Ensign, which they

repeatedly lower'd and trod upon; dipping it into the Kennels, and thus publickly treating it with every Indignity!

This disloyal and seditious Conduct having been represented to His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Charpentier was, by his order, removed to Simon's Town; And Riaux, and the rest were committed to prison! All the Dutch Offenders (tho' some of them even held Appointments under the British Government) were, however, dismissed with merely a Reprimand!

Riaux was sentenced to be banished, and to be detained in prison till the Sentence could be put into effect! He was, however, allow'd permission to go out daily for the purpose of arranging his Affairs; tho' this Indulgence (and even that of seeing my wife and family) was repeatedly, tho' vainly, solicited and interceded for on my Behalf, both by my friends and myself!!!

LAURENCE HALLORAN, D.D., Chaplain.

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Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE.

17, HEREFORD STREET, 8th May 1811.

MY DEAR SIR,—I beg to return my best thanks for your obliging note, and enclose the Christian name of Mr. Jones and the College in which he was educated.

The Bishop of London, I am persuaded, will give every necessary Testimonial as to his Character and Competency for the Situation. I beg to repeat that if Lord Liverpool is so kind as to accede to my earnest request in favor of Mr. Jones, I shall consider it as the most essential obligation his Lordship could confer.

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Letter from JOHN BARROW, ESQRE., to ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, 11th May 1811.

SIR,-Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of yesterday's date stating that the Ships chartered for the purpose of conveying the Garrisons of the Isles of France and Bourbon to Europe will speedily be ordered to proceed on their return to India, and will afford the means of conveyance, with advantage to the Public Service, for any Naval Stores or supplies which it may be in contemplation to forward to that Quarter; I am commanded to acquaint you, for Lord Liverpool's Information, that My Lords will be glad to avail themselves of the Cartels to send some Naval Stores to the Cape of Good Hope and Madras, and to request you will inform me of the amount of the tonnage of the Cartels that can be spared for this Service. I am etc. (Signed)

JOHN BARROW.

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Letter from MAJOR CUYLER to the EARL OF CALEDON.

UITENHAGE, 14th May 1811.

MY LORD,—I have the honor to forward to your Lordship herewith two letters from the Veld Cornet Slabbert the one addressed to me and the other to the Veld Commandant Stoltz, as also a letter from the Veld Commandant Stoltz to me, containing the melancholy account of a further outrage of the Kaffers on two brothers Petrus Johannes Slabbert and Frans Nicolaas Slabbert, brothers of the Veld Cornet whose letters are enclosed.

I have as yet received no further information of this murderous act than what the accompanying letters contain, and I trust are fully explanatory to give an idea of the state of this part of the country to your Excellency, the spot where I apprehend the murder took place is in the upper end of Zwarteruggens full 12 hours on horse interior of the advanced settlers and nearer to the Town of Graaff Reinet than to this Drostdy, and I believe

22 hours from here. The thinness of the settlers on this frontier and many parts so bushy a country as to give full scope for the entrance of these rovers and to take away their plunder undiscovered.

It is exactly two months to a day previous to the murder of these two brothers that Jan Davel, father-in-law to the Veld Cornet Slabbert, was murdered, which account I stated in my quarterly report, transmitted with the April post from hence to the Colonial Secretary for your Lordship's information; also in the same report is stated 60 head of cattle stolen from said Veld Cornet Slabbert. This account of the depredations committed by the Kaffers on one family in so short a time is truly distressing, but when drawn as individuals in the scale of the general sufferings which have for the last few years taken place in Uitenhage (there are other acts of barbarous outrage committed by those lawless bloodthirsters which) would scarcely make the sufferings of the family of the Slabberts singular. When these marauders will cease God only knows.

The instructions I am honored with from your Excellency do not afford the means of keeping these rovers in awe, or of maintaining my ground against their repeated intrusions. It is now I believe some years since I humbly proposed to your Lordship to be allowed to show a force of 700 or 800 Inhabitants in front of these intruders' kraals, desiring them to remove over the Great Fish River, and if they did not instantly comply, to drive their cattle over before them, when I am almost convinced the Kaffers would follow without the necessity of firing a shot, and to do this the Landdrosts of Graaff Reinet and Uitenhage should act conjointly, calling in the aid of the Longkloof, Oliphants River and Cango Inhabitants, and if these districts could not afford enough then going further interior of Swellendam and Stellenbosch, leaving most of the Graaff Reinet and Uitenhage settlers on their places as a rear guard in case of necessity, taking however some of these latter people along as they are better acquainted with the manners of the Kaffers and the country than the interior Inhabitants.

I conceive no more regular Military force would be required to accomplish what I propose than what is at present in the two advanced districts with 3 or 4 light pieces of artillery. I have the honor to transmit a duplicate of my last letter to the Colonial Secretary, stating the depredations of the Kaffers on and about

Bruintjes Hoogte, a few nights ago a large number of cattle has been stolen in this neighbourhood, and the preceding week 12 head was stolen from a place between Algoa Bay and this Drostdy. With the greatest respect I have &c.

(Signed) J. G. CUYLER, Prov. Landdrost.

P.S.-I have the honor to enclose the copy of a letter I have written to the several Veld Cornets, as I fear the Inhabitants may take fright from the recent conduct of the Kaffers.

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Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN

CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 16th May 1811. SIR,-In September 1807 certain papers which had been delivered by Mr. Wilberforce to Lord Castlereagh respecting some plans which had been undertaken by Baron Van Hogendorp at the Cape under the Dutch Government, were transmitted to Lord Caledon, in order that he might afford to the Baron his protection and Assistance.

In consequence of renewed applications upon the subject I am to desire that you will at an early period after your arrival in your Government, cause full enquiry to be made into the circumstances of the Case, and report to me how far the Baron may have suffered from any measures of the Colonial Government since the Surrender of the Colony, so as to be entitled to claim compensation therefrom, and what steps have been taken in his behalf for that purpose.

I am to desire that you will in the mean time give every support to this Gentleman or his Agents in such measures as he may have recourse to for the arrangement of any of his concerns which may admit of adjustment without special authority from His Majesty's Government. I have etc.

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