The South-African crisis - pagina 7

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

3

CRISIS.

England. Holland being the weaker power was forced

American colony by the treat of Breda in 1667, and her colony at the Cape b}^ the convention

to cede her

of London, April

IStii-

1S14.

The report to the effect that the Prince of Orange had mid the Cape was only a fabrication the historical On the researches of M. Heeres have proved this. :

contrary

minister

his

Foreign

of

resisted to

affairs

the last; but Lord Castlereagh opposed him with the

formal for

declaration

ns

think

judge

to it

"our

:

resolution

what portion

taken

is

we

of your colonies,

expedient to keep and what portion w^e are

willing to surrender"

i).

The sum paid by Engeland

w^as

destined not to

replenish the Prince's purse but to indemnif}^ the of

is

it

;

Sweden

for the cession he

of Guadeloupe,

and

King

had made of the Island

for the construction of fortifications

against France towards her Norfhern frontier.

-)

The

The malicious explanation of a venal abandonment was whispered afterwards, but at the time of the cession all were still convinced that England had forced the hand of their mother-counby, and when a Prince of the House of Orange visited the Cape in 1S3S he was recerived by his old colonists well understood this.

compatriots with frantic enthusiasm. In the occupation of the right,

Cape in 1806 England saw, not a question of but w^hat it devolved upon Mr. Chamberlain later

to christen with the

name

of "paramountcy."

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^Verken van de Maalschdppij van Letto'kunde, 1896

-)

Additional

L.\GF..\IA^':^,

article

Rccucil dcs

of

the

convention

TraUe.fi, etc.,

T/w

Ilaijue

of

—97,

London,

iSoS,

I,

p.

34

As she

pag. 09. 1,

2

— 38.

and

3.

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