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In the name and in behalf of her Majesty, I do hereby
proclaim and make known that the burghers aforesaid
are commanded to take the field upon the old commando
system, with this exception, the rations will be provided
for themselves by Commissariat arrangements, but no
expense will be incurred by the Government for arms,
horses, or appointments. They are to nominate their own
officefs, but they will be moved by the Commander-in-
Chief himself, after their assembly, upon those points
where their services may be most required to co-operate
with her Majesty's army, which will be so disposed in
converging columns, under the Commander-in-Chief
personally, as to sweep the whole country, extending
from Fort Beaufort to the left bank of the Mancazana,
and the Winterberg eastward to the Kie.
I do hereby proclaim to the colonists, that they are
now called on and commanded by her Majesty's repre-
sentative to aid in the expulsion of those irreclaimable
G,aikaa and Hottentot rebels, in driving them over the
Kei, and in establishing in perpetuity that security for
this
,frontier which can alone protect the families, the
bootee, and the property of its inhabitants.
And I do hereby make known, and do warn all con-
cerned,fuil that if this commando be not promptly and
whiyell:weyed, the colonists must bear the responsibility
The IT: entailed upon them by their own apathy.
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will be at the points herein designated,
_y the of MaThe head- rch proximo, prepared to move.
ho, on the nth day the
rters of Commander-in-Chief will
Fort Hare, as may be
March, either at Fort Beaufort or
aY be hereafter announced.
Given under n'
GOD save the g
lia's Tow
(Signed)
handaunEdE
naseal, at King Wil-
ythis 6th day of Feb. 1852.
By command of hisG. SMITX, Governor.
Excellency the Governor,
Jove (Signed)
. uovi G
ARTOCK, Lieut.- Col,
Private Secretary.

No. 2,
Head-Quarters, Fort Beaufort,
Bth march, 1852.
The troops assembled at and near Fort Beaufort, to
dislodge the
rebel Hottentots and Kafirs under the
Chief Afacomo, occupying h
t Watere strongholds of the Blink-
Fuller's Hoek, f, Sce., will be thus
water,
posted at the base of the respective operations of the
different columns.
2. The right column under Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre,
consisting Artillery, 4 yro,
consisting of two guns
31a, ThisliLight
co-
at the
ot-
Infantry, 73d Regiment, and detachment of Lore?
tentots, and Fingoea,
guns Royal Artillery, and
Blink water Post •
lumn will be joined by
two companies 74th Higthwloan"ders_e, now occupying that
post. Captain Harwell's Alounte Detachment d
will march to Post Retief.
3. The centre column ender Lieutenadt-Colonel
Artillery, 6th
Nichal, consisting of two guns Royal
c,h Regiment, 60th
Royal Regiment, four come ,
pinie3 ''"" Fingoo levies,
Rifles, and detstchment'of Hottentot and
at Ulakeway's Farm.
4. These twooolumns
will post themselves on these
points to-morrow, Tuesday, the 9th inst.
5. The ldft column under Lieutenant-Colonel Napier,
consisting of two guns Royal Artillery, the. 9lst Iteg
Cape
anent, four companies 74th Highlanders, 150 .
Monnted Rifles, 200 Fingoes, and the burghers ordered
to assemble at Haddon's Old Post, will make that post
the base of its operations.
6. On Tuesday, the 9th instant, this column will
move and occupy the small farm, called Nel's Farm, on
the road below the Bush Neck.

7. The 12th Lancers, and detachment C3pe Mounted
Rifles, are posted at Hartzog, near Eland's Pest, for the
purrpose of interrupting the retreat of the rebels into
the Amatola Mountains. _

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S. On Wednesday, the 10th instant, the three columns
will %eve to the attack.
The right column will direct its main exertions to dis-
lodge the rebels from Fuller's Hoek, the ridge of which
the enemy principally occupies, and where Macomo's
kraal is.

9. The centre column will ascend the high ridge by
the route pursued by Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce, in
the former attack, and will assail the Bushy Kloof, con-
necting Fuller's Hoek with the Water Kloof.
to. The left column will move by the waggon-road
up the Water Kloof valley to its head, and will
direct its Infantry and Cape Mounted Rifles to
ascend thence to moot the attack of the centre
column, while ice mounted force of burghers
patroles, so as to cut off any dislodged fugitives,
who may endeavour to cross from one kloof to the other,
movecommunicatin Posgt withad. the mounted burghers expected to
from Ro
11. The
bread and field troJps
ratio to Carryns with them three days'
,
It is possible they may
supply themselves with slaughter cattle, but, whe-
ther or not,
thoy must not be
possess
3drawn
themselves,from
any stronghold of which they may
for where the troops are the rebels cannot be, but move
forward invariably into the bosh, never coming into the
open. The mounted force must cut off fugitives.
12. These are the outlines of the operations.
13. The officers commanding columns, end Major-1

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General Somerset, will meet the Commander in-Chief
at 10 o'clock this day, to enter into the minutiae of their
combined operations, urou which success depends.
14. The Head-Quarters and Major-General Somerset
will be established at Blinkwater.
(Signed)
ConaUra. Ga
n.dtn-in ief.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 11.
LORD CHAMBELAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 7, 1852.
Not-ice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing Room, az lit. James's Palace, on Thursday,
13th May next, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Ma-
jesty's birthday. N.B. The Knights of the several
Orders are to appear in their Collars.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 10.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Henry Walter Ovendon, Esq., to be her Majesty's Con-
sul at Maranham.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY 5.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Skip
Lloyd, Esq., to be Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of
her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms,
vice James Bunce Curling, resigned.

CROWN-OP/ICI], MAY 10.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Harwich—lsaao Batt, of Leeson•street,
in the city of Dublin, Esq., in the room of Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, who has accepted the office of Steward
of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 10.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant
William Conyngham Lynch Blosse to be Second Captain,
vice E. Swinton, deceased; Second Lieutenant Frederick
William Whitehead to be Frst Lieutenant, vice Blosse,
May 1.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 3.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Francis
Robert Newton to be First Lieutenant, vice William
dismissed the service.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Joshua Proctor Brown Westhead, Esq., to be Daquty
Lieutenant, April 29.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—lsaac Powe,
Esq., to be Captain, vise Brooks, deceased, March 10.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the North Riding