LETTER ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AND ON CERTAIN EVENTS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED THERE OF LATE YEARS, UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CHARLES SOMERSET; ADDRESSED MOST RESPECTFULLY TO EARL BATHURST. BY LIEUT.-GEN. SIR RUFANE DONKIN. “ Quæ mea mens in suscipiendâ causâ fuit, fides in agenda, eadem vestra, in judi- Cicero in Verrem. LONDON: CARPENTER AND SON, OLD BOND STREET. 1827. NOTICE. IF I have introduced into the text, contrary to the general practice, a number of documents, and extracts from documents, some of them of considerable length, I have done so on the principle I set out with in writing my Letter to Lord Bathurst, namely, never to make a single assertion without instantly following it up by documentary or other proof, so that the whole state of each individual case should be embraced by the eye at Had I thrown these documentary proofs into the Appendix, they would have lost half, and perhaps in many cases, all their effect; for people do not like to break off in the middle of a narrative, to seek, in another part of the book, for illustrations or proofs. once. A2 1 LETTER TO EARL BATHURST, &c. &c. Park-street, Grosvenor-square, April 6, 1827. MY LORD, Four months have now elapsed since I presented myself at the door of your Lordship’s office, in the hopes of being honoured by a personal interview, when I was met by a letter, instead of being admitted into your presence; and that letter, which referred only to one part of the business on which I had previously solicited the honour of seeing your Lordship, coupled with the circumstances of its delivery, gave me a pretty clear intimation that my re-appearance in Downingstreet would neither be expected nor welcome. Thus situated, I have come to the determination of addressing to your Lordship this letter, by which. you will be made acquainted with some facts, in the right understanding of which I am myself personally interested, and by which your Lordship will be enabled to form, I hope, a judgment between Lord Charles Somerset and myself, as to |