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CHAPTEE

II.

GEORGE, EARL MACARTNEY, GOVERNOR, INSTALLED 5TH MAY 1797 20th NOVEMBER 1798.



RETIRED

MAJOR-GENERAL ERANCIS DDNDAS, ACTING GOVERNOR, 21ST NOVEMBER 1798 TO 9th DECEMBER 1799. Appointment in South

of the Africa.

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of

earl

Macartney as governor.

— Character

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of

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administration

arrival

of

Lord

Macartney. Banishment of Commandant Petrus Jacobus Delport. Regulations concerning commerce. Alterations in the courts of justice. Improvement in the mode of payment of civil servants. Treatment of Bushmen and Xosas. Assumption of duty by Mr. Frans Reinhard Bresler as

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landdrost

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Graaff-Reinet.

Barrow among the Xosas Xosa chief Gaika. Visit

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—Tour

of

Messrs.

Bresler

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Zuurveld. Account of the of Messrs. Bresler and Barrow to in the

of the first post-office in the colony. Proclamation defining the eastern and northern boundaries. Statistics of trade, revenue, and Prices of bread and meat. shipping. Establishment of a church at SweUendam. Mutiny

Gaika.

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war on the Cape station, and its suppression. Reduction of the military and naval force at the Cape. Return to England of Lord Macartney on account of ill health. Great fire in Capetown. Insurrection of a party of in GraaflF-Reinet. suppression farmers Its by General Vandeleur. Invasion of the colony by a horde of Xosas under the chief Ndlambe. Attack nn British troops by the people of Cungwa.— Massacre of a party of soldiers. in the fleet of

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Insurrection of Hottentots in the district of GraafF-Remet.

Progress of the war with the Xosas and Hottentots. Establishment of a kind of truce by Mr. H. Maynier. Appointment of Erection of Fort Frederick at Algoa Bay. Mr. Maynier as commissioner for the districts of SweUendam and Graaff-Reinet. Capture of the French frigate Prudente with volunteers to aid the insurgents of Graaff-Reinet. Defeat of the French frigate Preneuse in Algoa Bay. Account of the Namaqua captain Afrikaner. Dealings with Bushmen on the northern frontier. Establishment of missions ... by the London society. Shipwrecks in Table Bay.

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