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London, England, 1804-11-07 00:00:00

C.IPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The following is an official copy of the Proclama•
tion issued by the Dutch Government, at the Cape
of Good Hope, on the Colony being delivered over
into their hands, by General Dundas :

PROCLAMATION.

SY JACOB ABRAHAM DI KIST, J.U.D. MIMBER OP
Tilt. ASIATIC LULNCIL, CuIIIMISStRYAGE LLLLL
=ROM THE UATAVIAN 00VLANSILNT AT THE
C•Pit OF GOOD HOPL, TO ALL THE INHADITAN TS
OF THAT COLONY.
enough has bloody war made humanity to mourn—has
desolated the matt beautiful spies on earth, and dried up every
%Leta the %primp of happiness.
Long enough hare the mast powerful nation* of Europe
been divvied by wretched di,cords, and the Rotarian Republic
has, notwithstanding its inn/ charatter, and the peaceable
system of as Gmentulent, by the current of events, ben tweed
to tate part in these disputes.
An irretiptible drove for rest at length sheathed the awned,
and the %alai/lain Goveriiment did not hesitate to accede to
General Peace, gain id by the salour.and the blood of its war.
rors—as won a nonutir, prudance, and policy permitted it.
o.s she 17th March, ot last year, this peace was concluded
at Amiens, betwe-tithe Rotarian and French Republics, and
the Kingdom of Spain, on one part, and lin Britannic Ma-
testy, on %Mother. The good understanding between the dif-
ferent nations is therehy restored, rid the inimical dio,rostmin
of its inhabitants to one another is mutually exchanged for
tri. itdsbip.
A new Constitution ensured the ulterior tranquillity of the
Ratavim Republic, and has put a stop to the different inland
deragreements whirls agitated it (or some years.
Every well-dixased inhabitant may, merefore, rejoice in
the wets-founded and flattering prospeci, thlt, under the oil is.
of God, the former springs of happineu will be co:.eried
ag.tin--ilte uninterrupted commerce in all parts of the wone
will be renewed—and that the colonies and distant settleturnts
of the Republic will attain that degree of penspeiity arid wel-
fare, of whirls they may be rendered capable, under the sage
agmilistras,.,ll of mild and Just Government.
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The colony in this sontheritextremity of Africa has, in con-
sequence of the tith nide of the nb .re-ruentioned Treaty of
react-, been returned to the 00,-41100 0 the &tartan Rey h
; and one of the first caies a,t the Council of Sc.te WaS to
take the Millie over again, foam tht, hands of him who govorised
it in the name of His Britannic Majesty, and to establish
further .ICW orders upon the good adminiatratialt of the com-
mon cause, and upon every th.og t, hich may tend to re uu.te
the bonds between the nuttier country and this c dotty ; which
unba poly for a time had been broken, and to remkr Cie same,
if possible, Inviolable for one future.
[his honourable charge wai, by the above mentioned Coun-
cil of State, commuted ru me, by an open cotornassion given
at the He:AP • and tro.n tilat moment I have comae.' every day
which might forward the execution of my commission.
At iwicent I rejoice to give twice to you a I, that the first
part thereof ha. 'Jean fulfilled.
'lb, Lieutenant Genies. Gonda', Lieutenant Governor of
lies Binannie MarWy, been °Wig 2d, by unfolusseu cir-
: eutintauces, to 461.1 such h., a short time, him at present, in
pur,tsanee the abovementiuned 6th article of the treaty of

Antlmo, deheerod up to mc, for the hatavtait Republic, the
whole Colony 01 the Cape of Good Hope, with all the term°.
thereof, woods, buildings, fottOleattows, and what further,

from auy accounts, and without any exception whatever, ha-
been, before th war, 'be immoveable property of the Ratavian
Repub'i,., or the former privilat d Dutch Fa-t India CoMpauy.
Al, tho...e who had been bound by 'health of allegiance to
His 114,Lutur. MailatS, have be-ll absolved by the lion. Lieu-
tenant-Governor ; and from that moment you are ail returned
under the Suprein, Government of the lletayien Republic,
wh.cli 1 base the honour m roprescnt at this place, and under
tile Asiatic Council, to which the Adiniiiiiitration ut East India
Conimene and Sett'ements, by the above Constitution, :a cum-

M.A.
T proceed further to the execu ion of the power; vested in
rue I y Government, I here's, pro,:laim must solemnly, and put
in office the person of Jan WOa.CIII 1... ..311%, as 6 orentor and
Genetal in Chief over this Colony, with all the districts thmeto
helonging, to which office he has been appointed by an Act of
C onotts.W., front the Council of State; hereby desiring all
the ushabttants "(this Colon'', and all those whom it may con-
cern, to acknowledge and obey him in the said capacity, aaG
to thew him all Ow ielirci faith, and assistance, which he in
his high dignity is entitled to require and expect from ill the
well.ili,posed inhabitants of this Colony.
It is the will of the liatavtan People, that this settlement
shall b • na longer dependant upon the High Regency at Batavia ;
no. from am, commercial boils whatsoever ; the Constitotion
has atio!nlied All particular inivileg,s of that nature; and the
nnhabotanh of the Colony of the eve adl know, in future,
no other Gov‘ierweat thin that which the Bamviaii
have' appoint d Otef theni•elves.
Tic Chart. which I shall 113ille for them, and send to the
Nellwrlaists Inc approbation and toictem, will fix the rights
and done,' of the colonists. 34 W• 11 at their new form of Go.
%eminent, and secnre to them the quiet possession of then
propeitv—aduainistot:on of prompt and unpaid's' i1bt10.1,...e.ti

. . . . .
all the advantages attached to an unrcArained culture an I de•
livery of the proluce of the land—to a Ite•z and unlimit-d
commerce with the mother comers...AA to an extensor, trade
a.th the other settlements of the Repuld.c.
Until the return of this sanctiooed charter, I shall, w.thoin
dela., regulate the proviecial admirmtratioat of affairs in this
eninily, a. ale. the interior policy, both in (:ape Too ii, and in
the coorirrir deducts, cod further every tiorig that may require
n.y eirmediate care and attention:
lot in order that all this may be effefted resolarly, and that
no fernier rules, institution+, or customs, without a perfect Cu.
Trowel of their utility, much :est certrio tineterate aiiuse% may
hind the benevolent intentions of the Iletanan Ginemnient,
in determining upon the means tree the future amelioration, and
the incre, sing pnlverity of the Co'.eny, and that they alight
Born the beginning, hinder me is the eXeVkil ion of Illy
or Insensibly lead to take but hall nicasores,
which always produce an imperfect end; I hereh. discharge,
relieve, and dismiss all boards, offices, and talk. :s whatsoever,
now cs.c•pted, to whom before have been mmatittcil any ad-
rianiktration of policy, niftier, revisnue, the adinii,astratron of
public funds, magazines, hospeals, Itc. both in Cape Tear is and
the country districts, and distant e-tablishments of this Colony,
however, with this regard, that all the members of sorb board.,
es far as they have not been by this re,alaced by ethers; and all
odic-, and subaltern .4:rants wall heir:44rd to OAII4IIIIIIII in the
execirtee of the duties of then respective tarot, on their re-
sperisibility, until I shall have regulated the different b,anches
of adruinistratma, in such manner as I shall judge mot veldts
dive for the good of this Colony, and roast conformable to the
desire ache &tartan Government.
And although from this ilismaral an abolishment of the
beerd., officer% or servants, is only deemed necessary to intro-
duce • batter Colonial Government ; newt shall any evialliqtlelboll
be drawn, prejudicial to the honour, name, or rep 41141,0.1
of each and every one, who, (Moog the admilintration err their
offices, Imes behaved in contornisty to the invariable roles 4
lioiiour and duty. It is nut to be understred, however, that
the obligation is suspended, to give due and formal aomorit
all, who, before the siarrender the Colony to the Magill
homer, or who are yet this maulerst charged with the receipt
and administration of any public money or inoole., Intrusted
to them by any public authority, sir with the ado. ~, strotern of
magaimes, or ertablishnonats of the State; and for rendering
such accounts, it will be just to afford the cashes& opportunity
to the poems concerned.
All these precursors arrangements, which will pars the way
to a whole redress of ajar. in this Colony, will convince this
inhabatmits, that Else Betas an Goverriment tales
their interest warmly at Mont, and that it has anteater= to ex-
tirpate este, semen for dissonteut, with root and branch.
I ober you to this end au full contd.:lice aodprosecnon, and
has, a right reciprocally to expect from you an unlimited and
unfeigned, return to the lose of the KatVriall natiora, with which
yo.t are again reunited; due obedience and reverence for the
Goverument which guides and preteens every one of w ; (alb-
fie observance of the orders at the Asiatic Criumil, and the
Lawful authorities already appointed in this Colony, or net to
be applented • all cooformoule to heed mace:Sam roles, nieh
ail. be aegueted by then barter.
Let tom., in this Colony, be revived that third of sobriety,
mar that rtspcet for the reoublieas %M um of ore fathers, by
which the mother cseatry, and sis latLau paommigasos the