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MONTHLY SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS ON
THE FRONTIER.
(From the Cape Monitor.)
Our last summary of intelligence from head-quarters,
nearly to the close of January, was published on the 3d
of February, and forwarded by The mail packet Bospho-
rus on that day.

A postscript of the previous evenitg ndded the very
latest news just received, viz.:—That Butterworth Mis-
sion Station had been burned to the ground, and Kreli,
the Trans-Kelan chief, had asked for peace (Jan. 27.)
It appears that on the evacuation of that station by
the 6,00 or 7,000 Fingoes with their families and im-
mense herds, under the escort of Lieut.-Colonel Eyre's
division, the enemy reduced it to a heap of ashes.
The object of the Kafir chiefs was now merely to
gain time to reap their crops, and to lay in fresh stores
of arms and ammunition for the purpose of renewing
`operations on a more extended scale. They therefore
hod recourse again to thißir abuse of British clemency
and forbearance by 'messages and other diplomatic
ruses, at which they are such adepts. Bukoo and Ma-
passa, who have been forgiven and re-adopted, are again
" Smith's children," again they are " thankful for the
Governor's word." "Kreli begs to be allowed to sit at
the Governor's feet, and he will endeavour to collect the
2,500 head of catth, demanded for the deAruction of
Butterworth, and the injury done the traders; but it
would be chtleulr, as so many of his people's cattle had
been taken." We believe, however, that there are not
less than 80,000 head of cattle at this moment in pus-
teAion cif his tribe.

The arrant rogue Urnhala, on being ordered to " eat
up" a number of chiefs who had broken the oaths sworn
on the "stick," to deliver the stolen cattle and horses,
and to pay 1,000 head of good cattle, received the Go-
vernor's messenger and his staff of office with great re-
spect, slaughtering en ox on the occasion; then he col-
l« cis his awapaketi (councillors), and " thanks his great
Father Smith for his word;" he, however, begs for time
to seek the required cattle.
The T'Slambie chiefs are informed, through their
commissioner, that " seven columns of troops are in
motion on the Amatolae," end that they must eat up all
the war pariy, and hand over their cattle. The chiefs
are very grateful, and if they find any stolen cattle
among !heir people, will deliver thrtn up.
It is to be hoped, however, that the combined move-
ment on the Amatolas will induce these crafty, treacher-
ous diplomatists to act in accordance with the promises,
which we know to be thoroughly specious and hollow.
The combined movement upon the Amatolas was com-
menced on the 26th and 27th Joouary, in seven columns,
under the following officers:—" Major-General Semer-
met, Lieut.-o,,lonet Pole, Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, Lieut.-
Colon, Mic%el, Lieut.-Colonel Napier, Lieut.-Colonel
Skipwith, Lieut.-Colonel Nisbet, Major Kyle, Captain
Tylden, and Captain Catty, comprising a total of about
7,000, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 12th Lancers,
21, 61. h, 12th, 43d, 45th, 60th, 73d, 74th, 91st, ard Cape
Mounted Rifles, and native Leviee, together with Fin-
goes.
__

%,4‘ hilst, on the one hand, the enemy received prompt
reinforcem'nts (stated to be 2,000, and 400 Kafirs and
Hottentots), on the olber hand, they continually called
out to the troops " to go away, as they were tired of the
war." Sandilli based his application fur peace on the
clemency shown to an Englishman who had fallen into
his hands, and whom he now sent in, asking, "Am I
not Stnith's child?" Macorno, the deepest of all these
barbarians, sent in his favourite wife, with two other
women, who reported that Macomo's councillors were
determined to make peace, as they had no powder. " He
made sure of getting peace, as he had got it every war
when he asked for it."

Meanwhile some of the troops were employed in
opening a pass into the Amatola basin. Colonel
Michel's division had reaped and destroyed 200 or 300
acres of Kafir corn, during which operations Lieutenant
Armitage, 6th Regiment, was wounded iu the shoulder.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pole's division had killed some of
the enemy, and,eken 1,000 head of cattle (since sold
for 1,0001.) and the Kat River Levy, in two engagements,
bad killed 20 Kaare, and captured a few cattle and
horses, altheugh attacked by a greatly superior force of
the enemy,
On the 6th February the Governor issued a procla-
mation (republished below) calling upon all burghers of
seven frontier districts between the ages of 20 and 50 to
assemble on the Bth March, under the commandenein-
chid himself, and expel the rebel Gaikas and Hotten-
tots from the Waterkloof Blinkvvater, Fuller's Hoek,
Kat River, and the whole of the Amatolas.
Had the orgens of disorder and misrule withheld that
villanous teaching which thirteen months ago persuaded
the duped people to disobey the Governor's appeals,
the enemy would long since have been at our feet
and for ever; but now we scarce dare hope for a
favourable reply to this last call. Murde: and rapine
still stalk upon our border, disaffection continues, and
the enemy becomes more insolent and daring; the re-
-7nlar troops aro fully occupied in the Amatola range of
mountain festnesees, and the borders are infested by
prowling seurderers and thieves. At the Mancazana 10
Kafirs nod Hottentots stele from one gentleman 10 sad-
dl- horse:, and from another about 400 sheep—the ma-
i rarity of which were gallantly captured when en route
for the mouueaiu retreats. A kraal at Biebeek was
broken into by a party of Hottentots and Katirs, who
killed 1 horse and stole 10 others. On the 29th Janu-
ary, between 100 and 200 Hottentots and Kafirs, nearly
all mounted, attacked the cattle, Israel of Dr. J. Ather-
stone, jun., at Table Farm, four miles from Graham's
Town, and got off with 130 head of valuable cattle; and
although pursued beyond 40 mile', the murderous band
escaped, having shot one of Dr. Atherstone's servants
dead. Mr. P. Bertram, one of the pureuers, had scarce
returned home with his party, when his own cattle were
reported to be stolen by Kafirs; he immediately re-
mounted, and with three farmers and four servants pur-
sued and retook the booty. In Somerset, Field Cornet
Van der Neat's son, a youth of 16, received a ball in
the jaw whilst pursuieg a band of robbers. Another
patrol came on the spoor of eight mounted rascals, going
off with stoles horses towards Macomo's camp. At
Whittlesea the enemy made a sweeping race, but were
gallantly encountered and beaten, with the loss of their
own horses. At Salem Mr. Lung's herd was wounded
by some of these prowling savages.
On the 6th of February, a general order Wa3 issued,
directing that since Kafirs of the Gensli missionary sta-
tion, who had been fighting the whole war, and who had
now surrendered, should be disarmed and dismissed, and
that none, excepting chiefs or influential rebels, should
be retained. 'A Gwali chief, named Dakwani, had
surrendered, and been sent prisoner to King William's
Town.

The troops, meanwhile, experienced little, if any, op-
position during the destruction of the crops and kraals,
Colonel Michel was proceeding most industriously in the
work throughout the valley of Lenya, whilst Lieutenant-
Colonel Eyre, with his accustomed energy, desolated
the Keiskatima Hoek, in one part of which (the
Nyumeya) the kraals and gardens were so numerous that
he imagined they had not been previously disturbed.
Here a herd of cattle was spied in the act of being driven
off, but they were quickly pursued, and 63 head were
captured by the Fingoes, with a few Cape Mounted
Rifles and Levies, under Captain Griffith, supported by
Lieutenant Gawler's company of the 73d, and a party of
12th Lancers under Lieutenant Durant, the enemy flying
in every direction, An immense number of kraals were
burned.

These cattle were the personal property of Sandilii,
flying from Colonel Michel's column in the Lenya
valley.

Under these circumstances, the Kafir chiefs again bad
recourse to diplomacy; Sandilli, Botman, Xoxo, Bonet,
and Macomo holding a meeting on the 9th February,
with the Gaika Commissioner Brownlee, and begging
for a three days' truce, ostensibly tfor the purposes of
consultation, but in reality to save their corn and con-
coct further stratagems.
The rogues were accompanied by about 200 Kafirs
and two rebel Hottentots, one of whom leaned on his
musket, scowling on the British commissioner. San-
dilli said it was time there should be peace, but he pre-
ferred making it in the field; he would not go to a mili-
tary post. The 12th, 13th, and 14th of February were
accordingly given to them, at the end of which time
they (but without Macomo) requested a further cessa-
tion of hostilities "until peace is established." Their
delegates, Zama and Dadu, said, that " when a child is
in error, he is chastened by his father, who afterwards
receives him into favour. Sandilli has erred, and the
other chiefs had done wrong in supporting him: the
Governor has now punished them, and they pray for
peace." This humbug is too transparent. The chiefs
positively refuse to surrender.
Operations were accordingly resumed on the 15th.
On the last day of the truce, the 14th February, ano-
ther officer was picked off, Dr. Davidson, 43d Light In-
fantry. " It eppears that some waggons which were
proceeding with an escort of the 43d Regiment from
King William's Town to Colonel Eyre's division, in the
Ametolas, with supplies, were attacked at night at
Bailey's Grave, and after firing for several hours upon
the party, succeeded in shooting Surgeon Davidson and
three men of the 43d Regiment. One of the waggons,
it appears, struck there and occasioned delAy." We also
killed
learn that after the evacuation of Butterworth by the
Fingoes under Colonel Eyre's escort, those of
the Fingoea who preferred going to the east-
ward were attacked by Kmli's Kafirs near the
Bashes--20
and
aboutme n and many
head woman
rattlya and
d taken.chiidr e beingnAu e x -
tensi ,e
Twanvi system of depredation goes on all around. Mato,
arLutii 4.atinudt.o.thers of the friendly tribes, having sent in
(we fear
vales of Gaika cattle found in their country
sold, and tboery minute portion of the whole), these were
Fund (sot toproureds handed over to the War Relief
3771.; also 3801,
to Kat River Hottentot Fund)—via.,
first instalment of
tzepreeds of the sale of Umhala's
This chief's second palt" mentioned above—total, 7451.
in, has been declined frollinstalment, subsequently sent
(100). It is said that timite Paucity of its number
from others for the payment ofd ponds on his thefts
friendly chiefs, it is said, continue seinsd*
fine. The other
ing to ho'si!e chiefl4, which had be ing cattle belong-
. - en secreted among
the:r ~..- .ipi9.
1
Atter this three days' truce, the several divisions
under Major-General Somerset, Lieutenant-Colonel
Michel, Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, Lio
uttuant-Colonel

Pole, Major Kyle, and Captain Campbell, C.M.R., re-
sumed their labours on the 17th of February. Colonel
Michel had destroyed all the crops on the Lenya; then
marched for Wolfvalley, experiencing but little oppo-
sition; he thhn burned Botman's camp, and is re-
ported to have since destroyed the principal Hottentot
and Kafir camp in the Amatolas. He was once op-
posed; but his men, it is stated, made such " a furious
charge" that the enemy fled, and did not again inter-
fere with him. Lieuteuarn-Colonel Eyre, co-operating;
with Lieutenant-Colonel Michel,
on the 10th of February,
separated his column into two divisions. that under Major Pinokney, 73J, proceeded down the Valley of the
Qumeya, and the Lieutenant-Colonel through the
Bomah pass. They re-united at the junction of the
Wolf and Keiskamma Rivers, destroying Saudilli's kraal
and that of LTrabarabe one of his councillors; thence
proceeding along the delebe Kloof in view of Colonel
Michel on the Lenya, and on the 18th of February re-
turned to his camp in Keiskamma Hoek without oppo-
sition. Major Pinckney capturing a few head of cattle.
Lieutenant-Colonel Skipwitia had supported these move-
ments with the 43i Light Infantry. On the 21st Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Eyre had gone to the Icatu to intercept
cattle fleeing before Colonel Michel. General Somerset
was in the Amatola range.
The reports of the other officers bad not been received
on the 22d of February.
The amicable relationship"
with B.)koo, his son Mapassa, and their tribe, is an-
nousiced to extend over the territory from the Wagon
Drift over the Kei up that river to its confluence with
the T'Somo, thence up the left bank of the T'Somo to
‘;
the Wagon Drift; thence in a line to Butterworth, and
down the waggon road to the Kei; and all troops and
patrols are warned not to interfere with that country.
We wish that it may not be made a friendly receptacle
for the cattle of the enemy.
The neighbourhood of the Macazana, Bavianan's
river, &c., is stated to be still Overrun b the enemy's
marauding bands. Lieutenant Rutherford and the party
of burghers under him are reported to have killed seven
or eight Hottentots on the •
—eehttpltiver, one of whom
is confidently stated to be the notorious Jan Pokbass,
for whose apprehension a large reward has been offered
by the Governor. The enemy are committing sad havoc
at the deserted places. Various accounts confirm the
statement that Macomo has received a large accession of
Tambookie warriors in the Water Kloof, and is deter-
mined to hold out as loug as he can. And it is said that
the Hottentots, who are kept on short commons by the
Kafirs in their fastnesses, have lately been disposing of
their guns to them in exchange for food. It is, how-
ever. difficult to obtain accurate information of what is
doing at the enemy's camps.

(From the Extra to Vie Graham's Town Journal,
Feb. 24.)
BY AUTHORITY.
MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL INFORMA-
TION.

live William's Town, Feb. 21.
I have
an amicable relationship
Head-quarters,
ci
with the Trans-Kei :n Chief Bokoo, and his son Mapassa,
and their tribe; and I hereby prohibit any patrol, party
of burghers, or others, from entering the territory of
u adrtit; r s
concluded, King
their people. This territory extends from the Wagon
Drift over the Kei, up that river to its confluence with
the T'Somo; thence up the lett bank of this stream to
the waggon drift; thence in a line to Butterworth, and
down the waggon-road to the Kei.
Messengers have been sent to me by the Chief Kreli
to sue for peace. These I have dismissed, desiring them
to tell Kreli that as he urged, aided, and abetted San-
dilli to go to war, exerting that paramount authority
which all the Cis-Keians acknowledge, I cannot make
peace with him until Sandilli and the Gaikas vacate the
Amatolas and cross the Kei. The messengers are like-
wise to inform him that the hostilities which I directed
the Brithh resident, Mr. Shaw, to suspend on the part
of the Chiefs Fake, Nonese, Ludidi, Ungagnini, Joi, and
others, will be renewed the moment that a single act of
aggression on the part of Kreli is perpetrated.
H. SMITH, High Commissioner.

Head-quarters, King William's Town, Feb. 22.
The Commander-in-Chief directs the publication of
the only cffieial reports he has received from the officers
commanding the troops in the Amatolas.
The work of devastation has been carried on since the
15th instant with great vigour and energy by the troops,
under the command of Major General Somerset, Lieut.-
Colonel Michel, Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, Lieut.-Colonel
Pole, Major Kyle, and Captain Campbell, C. M. R.,
nearly the whole f the cultivation of the Gaika district
having been destroyed.
In a report to his Excellency's private secretary, of the
21st inst., the Gaika commissioner states
" has just come in from the Anaatolas. Re in-
forms me that yesterday Colonel Michel burned Bot-
man's camp, and that he this morning destroyed the
principal _Hottentot and Kafir camp. Colonel Michel'a
column appears to have been so well arranged, and to
have gone on with such determination, that the Hotten-
tots appear to have made but slight resistance, and
repref.cnts them as being scattered in twos and
threes over the mouttains. The spirits of the Kafirs
aro very low. There is a division among
them. Sandilli and some of his councillors wishing to
leave, while others are opposed to this measurt, and are
proposing instead to make an offer of surrendering their
firearms. states that some Kafirs came out yes-
terday to attack Colonel Michel, but his men made such
a furious charge at the Kafirs that they male off,
and
did not again interfere with him. C done! Eyre has to-
day gone to the top of the Icatu,' where a number of
cattle which fled from Colonel Michel are gone. It is
likely that Colonel Eyre will fell in with some of the
cattle, as be moved early this morning. General
Somerset is on the Arnatola ridge."
The chiefs of the friendly Kafirs continue to send in
small lots of Gaika eattle,*lecreted among their people.
U. L. MAYDWELL, Military Secretary.
(Copy.)
Lenya Valley, Feb. 17, 1852.
Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information
of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that I have
_
destroyed all the crops in the Lenya, which were very
extensive.

Lieutenant-Colonel Eyr© simultaneously destroyed
--°O,;
, with the exception of a small
portion, which General Somerset arranged with Lieut.-
Colonel Eyre to destroy to-day. I march to-morrow
for the Wolf Valle
those in Ilelebe's ki;
and as I have reason to think
to-morrow night.
few crops there, I hope to be in Fort Cox
opposition was made to our proceedings,
a there
f ,w Hardly are
harmless
any very
shots only being fired.
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a dispatch from
his Excellency of this date. The orders therein re-
ceived shall scrupulously be obeyed.
I have, &c.,
J. MICHEL, Lieutenant. Colonel,
Commending Field Force.
Colonel Cloete, C, Commending
Q.M. General.
(Copy ) Camp, Keiskarama Hoek, Feb. 18, 1852.
Sir,—ln obedience to instructions
received from his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, bearing date King
William's Town-, Feb. 14, 1852, I have the honour to
report for the information of his Excellency, that I
moved off in two
m divisions with every available man of
the force under y command, early on the morning of
the 16th before daylight, with a view to support Lieute-
nant-Colonel Michel, while that officer was employed in
the devastation of tho
enemy's crops in the valley of the
Longa. One column, under the command of Major Pinck-
ney, composed of two companies of the 43d Light Infan-
try, two companies of the /
• 3d, the Levies, and Fingoee,
and a portion of the Cavalr Y, I directed to proceed down
the Valley of the Qumeen. I proceeded myself with
the remainder of the division direct through the Bomah
Pass. Neither column met with any resistance from the
enemy. Major Pinckney and myself re-united our
forces at the entrance- of the Bomah Pass, near the
junction of the Wolf and Keiskamma rivers, and toge-
ther proceeded to destroy the numerous kraals that we
found in that locality, and anion
gat them Sandilli's, if we
may believe the testimony G. r
the women, whom we have
taken prisoners. We also destroyed the kraal of Um-
bambe, one of the councillors of that chief. Having
reached the Helebe kloof, whence I could see distinctly
Lieutenant-Colonel Michel'a camp, I immediately
crowned the heights of Mount Macdonald, which com-
manded equally the two
k valleys termed the Lenya and
the Helebe kloofs, after_ which I commenced destroying
the crops in the latter loof, w
h
ich was very extensive,
reaching up to the summit ot Alount Macdonald. The
whole of this cultivation (with the exception of a few
patches which General Somerset, in
. a conference I sub-
sequently had with l
hen,
_promised to destroy), were
effectually devastated by the troop& under my command.
We bivouacked on the summit of Mount Macdonald,
near the General's encampment On the following
' the 17th, at daylight, we
morning, .3 groped our way
down the steep e•
through a dense fog tde of the mountain
the L
overlooking Fort Cox, into .
Ellyn Valley, in order
to assist Lieat.-Colonel Michel_. in the destruction of the
crops in that valley; but fiii,dtelthat the work was al-
ready done, and by eight ocl f in the morning, and
that there was no necessitye
Ir. ,e,
—9 co•operation, I
proceeded up the valley of thum eiek
41nr", and having
devastated the crops in the
Qbefeogr: en
route, I returned
to my camp at this station
ce. , dark. The enemy
made no attempt at resistance. Itt3 fact, three or four
Kafiri, were all that we Saw during the two days' opera-
tions. The troops hid two most arduous days, which
they went through with their accustomed
rese
momed good-will.
I beg particularly to ex'
pd t . y thanks to Major
Pinckney, wile con ..0
s eisd his b aChed column with his
.. the ene v
usual intelligence, surprising,Also to I:
En and capturing a
few (half-a-dozen) cows, utenant-Colonel
who
Ski writs 431 Light Weary, 3 .
alsoeffectually to Lieutenant Du-
me throughout
rant, 12th Royal Lancers, commanding the cavalry;
ding the Levies; and '
Captain Griffiths, comm
anthe Fingoea. 1 '
Lieu-
tenant Vice, commanding _ es. ..have also re-
in Field-
Adjutant every assistance from Adjutant Reeve,
73d Regiment.

(Signed)

I have, Scc.t
(Signed) wm. EmE, Lieut.-Colonel, 73d Reg.
e , but
Colonel Cloete, C. 8., Quarter-Master General.
11. L. Maydvvell, Military Secretary.
We have received important information from the
(True Copies.)
front by this morning's military mail. The official ac-
counts I:bovr that the troop 9 well nigh completed the
andd Colonelestructio
destruction of
Michele lithaetiresc'
accounts
are From
encouraging,
Colonel Eyre
from the division under the ilumediAte coululAnd of Ms-

jor-General Somerset we have no intelligence beyond
that incidentally afforded by Colonel Eyre'e report. 'The
proceedings of these columns are producing a powerful
effect upon the Kafir mind. The destruction of their
crops, and so eomplete an invasion and military posses
sion of their country, they have never before witness: d.
All that is now apparently needed is firmness on the
part of the Commnder-in-Cnief, and a somewhat ex-
tended liberality in his Excellency, by which he may
rally round hire a burgher force of 1,000 or 1,500 eti,e-
tivo mac. The approach of a force of this nature would
produce a very material effect upon Kefirlaed, as we find
that the enemy is already much dispirited. Ilk appa-
rent penitence and plaintive messiges cannot, huvrover,
at this moment be entertained; his expulsion from the
Amatola, and complete submission to all the terms that
may be impeaed upon him, Inuit now be accomplished,
or fifteen months of war, the expenditure of nearly
2,000,0001. of treasure, aed the sacrifice of much valu-
able life, will all prove to have been in vain.
The boundary of the country of the chief with whom
peace was made at the close of last month is now de-
fined. Messengers had also arrived from Kreli, who
stated that a Boer commando had been down upon
them, and prevented them discussing the Governor's
terms. But they were sent back to say that in addition
to the other conditions the Governor formerly named, he
would now add, that Kreli should insist upon the GailKas
erot,sing the Kei, and that until they did so, ho would
neither make peace with Kroh nor Sa,ndilli. It is added,
that " the messengers have gone back without much
comfort."
Umhala had also sent in somewhat less than 100 head
of cattle, which the governor ordered to be taken back,
refusing to receive less than 200 at a time, much to the
surprise of the messengers. The other friendly chiefs
it is said, continue sending cattle belonging to hostile
chiefs, which had been secreted among their people.
Wo understand that large supplies of forage corn are
about being thrown into Fort Brown, Fort Beaufort, and
other poste. Our active commissary-general, Mr. de
Smidt, is already finking arrangements for transporting
the supplies in question. We hope sincerely that this
is the forerunner of an order from the Governor to give
forage rations to the Burgher forces, in which case we
continue to have assurances there will be a good muster,
but failing such provision, his Excellency's command
will become a dead letter.