Records of the Cape Colony, from February 1793 to April 1831Government of the Cape Colony, 1900 - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
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... honor to communicate to you for the informa- tion of their Lordships that His Majesty's Ships Clorinde and Iphigenia anchored in Table Bay on the 18th ultimo . The former having been detained here until the 5th instant in consequence of ...
... honor to communicate to you for the informa- tion of their Lordships that His Majesty's Ships Clorinde and Iphigenia anchored in Table Bay on the 18th ultimo . The former having been detained here until the 5th instant in consequence of ...
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... honor of delivering to your Excellency this dispatch , was the bearer of a letter from the Commandant of Monte Video to my address soliciting ( as your Excellency will perceive by the enclosure ) the assistance of this Government in a ...
... honor of delivering to your Excellency this dispatch , was the bearer of a letter from the Commandant of Monte Video to my address soliciting ( as your Excellency will perceive by the enclosure ) the assistance of this Government in a ...
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... honor to acknowledge the dispatches received by the Sylvia Cutter , which vessel arrived here the 7th June , and sailed again on the 11th in pursuance of her further Orders from their Lord- ships . Adverting to the Letter I had the honor ...
... honor to acknowledge the dispatches received by the Sylvia Cutter , which vessel arrived here the 7th June , and sailed again on the 11th in pursuance of her further Orders from their Lord- ships . Adverting to the Letter I had the honor ...
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... honor to acknowledge the dispatches received by the Sylvia Cutter , which vessel arrived here the 7th June , and sailed again on the 11th in pursuance of her further Orders from their Lord- ships . Adverting to the Letter I had the honor ...
... honor to acknowledge the dispatches received by the Sylvia Cutter , which vessel arrived here the 7th June , and sailed again on the 11th in pursuance of her further Orders from their Lord- ships . Adverting to the Letter I had the honor ...
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... honor to transmit the several Proclamations and Government Advertise- ments issued between the 24th April and 30th June last . I have & c . ( Signed ) CALEDON . [ Original . ] Letter from VICE ADMIRAL BERTIE to the HONOURABLE W. W. POLE ...
... honor to transmit the several Proclamations and Government Advertise- ments issued between the 24th April and 30th June last . I have & c . ( Signed ) CALEDON . [ Original . ] Letter from VICE ADMIRAL BERTIE to the HONOURABLE W. W. POLE ...
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Common terms and phrases
acquaint Agter Bruintjes Hoogte appear appointed arrived bank Berg Bosjesmen Bourbon Cape Captain Castlereagh cattle chief circumstances Colonel colonists colony Commander conceive consequence considerable Copy directed dispatches distance districts drostdy duty EARL OF CALEDON east ESQRE established Excellency expence farmers Fish River force Ghonaquas Government Governor Graaff-Reinet Gyka Gyka's Hinsa honor Hope Hottentots India inhabitants Isle of France Jaloosa Kaffers Kloof Konga kraal Kyba land landdrost Letter Lieut LIEUTENANT GENERAL GREY Lombard Bank Lord Lordship Majesty's miles Military necessary neighbourhood neighbouring Nereide observed occasion Officers Orange River party persons Plettenberg Bay possession present proceed proceeded Proclamation received Regiment residence respect Rixdollars sent Ships Signed Simon's Town situated Squadron Storm Mountains stream Sunday River Swellendam T'Ky Tambookie Town Troops Uitenhage veld cornet vessel VICE ADMIRAL BERTIE VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH waggons Zak River Zlambie Zlambie's Zomo Zuurveld
Popular passages
Page 371 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous or illegal, he must...
Page 139 - And whereas by an Act made in the seventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses, in the Plantation Trade...
Page 139 - Possessions abroad," it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, by any Order or Orders in Council, to be issued from time to time, to give such directions, and make such regulations, touching the trade and commerce to and from...
Page 371 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Page 139 - LIMITS OF ACT. IV. This Act shall extend to all places within the limits of the metropolis as defined by an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the...
Page 141 - Authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
Page 198 - That all and every Hottentot in the different Districts of this Colony, in the same manner as all Inhabitants, shall have a fixed Place of Abode in some one of the Districts, and that an entry of the same shall be made in the Office of the Fiscal, or the respective Landdrosts, and that they shall not be allowed to change their place of abode from one District to another, without a Certificate from the Fiscal, or Landdrost of the District from which they remove ; which Certificate they shall be bound...
Page 24 - ... common sense, by depriving the colony of the benefit which might have been derived from so useful a people. The total extinction of the Bosjesmen race is actually stated to have been at one time confidently hoped for; but, fortunately, even such zealous instruments were not able to effect this bloody purpose.
Page 445 - I have the honor to transmit a copy of a letter addressed to me by the consul of the United States at London, giving the particulars based upon credible information received by him, the authority for which it is not in his power at present to disclose. As the vessel is known to...
Page 445 - B. Street, commanding the Government armed ship Emma, who were employed for many successive nights in sounding, and (as it has been proved) gained a perfect knowledge of the anchorage on the enemy's coast, and who were equally strenuous in their services in various ways on shore. I beg also to recommend to their Lordships