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affixed to one of the houses at Congella, and having
libo'ated these t.0,1,te I returned to the outposts wish
the troops. I regretted my force did not permit hie to
leave a guard for the protection of the property, the
more so as I felt every apprehension that the number of
Caffres, who had made their appearance as soon as we
got into the place, would plunder it the moment of our
leaving it.
I understood the Boors have retired to one of their
camps about 12 miles off, where they were said to be
400 strong, with four or five guns.
Without any of my provisions or ammunition yet
landed from the Southampton, or uny means of organiz-
ing tranSport, I did not feel justified in entering upon
any forward movement, which would tend only to lead
me away from the more important object of strengthen-
ing my posts, forming and securing my magazines.
Upon these objects I have since been engaged, and
having required of 'the Caffres to bring me in as many
horses and cattle us they could get, I have no doubt that
I shall soon be in a condition to take the offensive with
some effect.
The Boors will in the mean time have had ample time
to conm aer their position, and the terms of my notice ;
upon the subject of which I received on the 30th ult. a
letter from.Pretorius, their Military Commandant, asking
me if I wished to confer with them, and if so, to appoint
a place between Congas and Captain Smith's camp to
meet him. I answered that I could enter into no ne-
gotiation with him without a previous declaration of sub-
mission to her Majesty's authority. To this I have re-
ceived no reply. •
Several inhabitants, 15 in number, have come in and
taken the oath of allegiance.
On the 28th, 29th, and 30th the weather had continued
so boisterous that, on an attempt being made on the last
of those days to send on shore some provisions, the men's
packs and our ammunition, the boats struck on the bar,
one man of the 25th Regiment was drowned, the whole
of the provisions were lost, all the men's packs thrown
overltard, and 18,000 rounds of ammunition destroyed.
The greater portion of the men's packs were fortunately
picked up (411 the beach the following morning, when we
found that the frigate had been obliged to put out to sea.
I regret to be obliged to close this dispatch with a re-
port which reached me last night, that the Caffres had
begun to set upon the Boors, and that three had been
killed by them. The enclosures explain the manner in
which I have treated this subject, and upon the prin-
ciples of which I purpose strictly to act ; for if England
will not put don n the Boors by her own legitimate,
means, it were betterc to abandon the question altogether,
and submit even to the insult we have received, than to

adopt the degrading process or enlisting the savage in
our c use, or call upon the Zoolah assegais to commit all
the atrocities of indiscriminate 'bloodshed and spoliation.

I have received such aid from Lieutenant Maclean
Royal Artil!ery, and his services will be of such advan-
tage to me in our forward movement, that I have not
sent him back in the Southampton.
I hope to be able to send the sick and wounded by her.
I .have the honour to be, Sir,
)(cur Excellency's most obedient humble servant,
A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel,
Deputy Quartermaster-General Commanding.
His Excellency Alajor-General
Sir George Napier, K.C.8., &c.
P.S. Since writing the above, the Maid of Mona has
come to anchor, and the Reform is in the offing.
A. J. CLOETE.

(Enclosure No. 1.)
NOTICE.

Congella, Port Natal, June 28, 1842.
1. By the authority vested in me, a free pardon is
hereby granted to all deserters from her Majesty's army
who shall return to their colours at the head-quarters of
the troops at Port Natal, within ten days of this date.
2. All inhabitants of Natal who shall be peaceably
disposed, shall, on making their submission to her Ma-
jesty's authority, receive protection and remain unmo-
lested. All those neglecting to do so will be treated as
being in arms against her Majesty's Government.
A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant Colonel,

Deputy Quartermaster General Commanding.
(Enclosure No. 2.)
NOTICE.

Port Natal, July 2, 1842.

A report having been brought in to me that :he Caffres
have killed three Boors (Dirk Van Rooyen, Theunis
Oosthuizen, and another), the insurgent Boors are warned
of consequences such as these, which it will be impos-
sible to arrest while they continue in arms against her
Majesty's anthority ; and thus bring all the evils and
horrors of Caffre murder and devastation upon them-
selves, their families, and properties, in spite of every en-
deavour on the part of her Majesty's troops to prevent
them. A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel,
Deputy-Quartermaster General Commanding.

Port Natal, July 4.
Sir,—Since writing to your Excellency yesterday, I
have received from Pretorious a communication com-
plaining that the Caffres were committing fierce outrages
upon the Boors—that we were receiving the cattle plun-
dered from the Boors—that the destruction of the Caf-
fres must follow such proceedings—and that anxious as
the Boors were to put a stop to all this war and coming
bloodthed, that it was impossible for them to accede to
the conditions of my notice. which required, us a first
step, a declaration of submission to her AF.,,jesty,s au-
thority, and he ends his letter thus :
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" I must also acquaint you that we have already made
over this country to his Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands, and have called upon that Power to protect us, so
that we have every right to expect that our cause will be
supported in Europe."
My answer to this letter is enclosed. [See below.]
I have also been informed that Pretorious and his hos-
tile bands have retired from this neighbourhood to within
15 miles of Maritzburg ; this sudden. move I ascribe to
the rumour that has just reached me, that Panda and the
Zoolas were marching against the Bonrs.
All this is a melancholy state, but unavoidable, when
dealing with Such elements.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most ob dient humble servant,
• A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant- Colonel,
Deputy QuartermaLter-General Commanding.
His Excellency Major-General
Sir It. G. Napier,
P.S.—The detachment by the Maid of Mona has been
landed. A. J. CLOETE. 1

"Port Natal, July 3, 1842.
" Sir,—l have received your letter of this day's date,
and no one can lament more than myself the melancholy
prospect before us of seeing the savage engaged in a
murderous onset of extermination against you and your
fellow-countrymen ; but it is an evil so unavoidably
consequent upon the events which you and your unfor-
tunate misguided people have brought about by your
acts of determined hostility against her Majesty's Go-
vernment and troops, that it ought not to surprise you ;
and in spite of all my efforts to prevent, and my deter-
mination to arrest, as far as in me lies, these excesses
(as you will have seen by my public notices of yesterday,
which I have sent to you), you must be perfectly well
aware that beyond such positive prohibition, and the
having employed persons to explain my determination
to the Caffres, I have no power over these people.
I have certainly required the Caffres to bring into my
cantonments all the horses and cattle they can get, so as
to enable me to act with vigour, and put down the state
of war and bloodshed which you have spread over
these districts ; and to expect that I should deprive my-
self of the only means I possess of equipping myself and
that too, in the face of your having cut off the whole of
Captain Smith's cattle, to the amount of some 700 oxen,
besides causing the destruction of his horses, and having
further seized all the stores of those inhabitants who are
peaceably disposed towards her Majesty's Government,
is to suppose me incapable of reasoning and acting.
You have caused the horrors of this state of things,
and you must bear the consequences to yourselves, your
properties, your wives, and your children.
You say you would still be disposed to avert the evils
of this coming bloodshed, which you are aware will lead
to extermination. If you are sincere in this, there can
be nothing degrading, in so great a cause as humanity.
in your giving in your submission to her Majesty's
authority, as. an indispensable and preliminary step to a
final adjustment, which you may be very certain the
Government has every disposition to settle with justice
and leniency towards the emigrant farmers ; and in the
favourable interpretation to your interests you will find
in myself a friend, rather than ono inimical to your un-
happy countrymen.
I regret much that you should have allowed yourselves
to be so grossly deceived with regard to the intentions
of the King of holland, by a person totally unaccredited,
and that you should have been urged to act as you
have, upon the vain supposition that any of the Eu-
ropean Powers would lend an ear to any question
arising between England and her colony of the Cape of
Good Hope, of which you cannot be so ignorant as
not .to knc that Port Natal has always been a de-
pendency.
I shall be happy to lend my best efforts to arrest any
general rising, or partial acts of violence of the Zoolas
or Caffres ; but I feel my incapacity to do much in this
respect K bile your people continue in arms against her
Majesty's authority, and thus lead these tribes to think
that whatever injury they do you must be pleasing to
the Government.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel, Deputy Quarter-
master-General Commanding.
Mr. Pretorius.

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additional 5 per cent. unon all the customs'duties in
the kingdom and coloni..s ...ill which 11:: i 9 determined
to persevere.
i The Tariff Convention has made no advance since
my last communication. The distress continues to be
most alarming in the. Douro district and in Tps-os-
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M rites.

The Queen and Court re'irned. from Cintra on
Saturday to take up their residence definitively in
Lisbon, the great heats having subsided. The proro-
gation of the Cortes will take place by Royal decree,
without any formal speech.

same time, some expressions relative to his
having betrayed somebody, but at that moment a
carriage approached, which from the softness of the
road had not beelt heard till then, upon which the
ruffian ran off amongst the trees towards a place
adjoining, called Highfield. Peirce made his
way home, and was too much alarmed to com-
municate he matter to the police. On the following
Tuesday, Peirce was returning home across the
Houndwell (an open piece of ground near the
High-street, Southampton), about eight o'clock
in the evening, when he found himself dogged by a
man whom he recognised as the ruffian who assaulted
him on the Common. At a moment when no person
was apparently near, the fellow fired a pistol at Peirce,
and the bullet passed through his hat, doing him no
injury. The assassin fled and escaped. Peirce com-
municated the facts to the Home-office, and a gentle-
man (Mr. Hay) from thence, and subsequently, we be-
lieve Sir J. Graham, have attended the examination
of Peirce before the Borough Magistrates. No clue has
been at present obtained, but a Government pro-
clamation, offering 1001. reward for such information
as may lead to the apprehension of the assassin, will
be issued forthwith. As before stated, we have been
refused a perusal of the depositions, or any informa-
tion, by the Magistrates, who, however, seem fully
impressed with a belief of the fact of Peirce having
been shot at, a police constable and a woman, in the
vicinity, having heard the report of a pistol at
the time.

THE ROYAL VOYAGE.
(From the John Bull.)
By the kindness of a friend, we have been favoured
with a narrative of the Royal voyage homeward, from
which we proceed to give a few extracts :
It is already known that her Majesty, on the out•
ward voyage, was in the Royal George yacht, Captain
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, towed by the steamers
Rhadamanthus and Black Eagle. The weather being
fine the passage wa.s excellent, and the triangular
group formed of the three ships had a splendid effect.
But the voyage had its drawbacks. The columns of
smoke from the two towing steamers, instead . of as-
cending high in the air and dissipating, being now
kept down by the atmosphere, fell back on the Royal
George filling both decks and rigging with their un-
savoury vapours, and with pertinacious loyalty pene•
trating under the awning where the Queen and her
Royal husband sat. This visitation made the Royal
couple cough and rub their eyes just as any other
good man and wife would do. Moreover, the officers
of the squadron could not conceal from themselves the
fact that if the weather should become boisterous
the Royal George would pitch and plunge, and if the
warps should break she would have to trust entirely
to her sails. The possibility of such an occurrence
was strongly set before her Majesty by Sir Robert
Peel and the Duke of Buccleuch, who told her that
she came a little too late in the season to rely on the
weather. It was therefore determined that she should
return in the Trident. Admiral Brace, the com-
mander-in-chief, hesitated about taking the command
of a merchant ship ; but Sir R. Peel, well acquainted
with the etiquette of the sea service, assured the
Gallant Admiral that an order from the Prime
Minister would immediately turn the Trident into a
respectable steam frigate, and it did so. Sir Robert
gave the orders, the Admiral boarded the Trident
and hoisted his flag ; Captain Bullock accom-
panied him as pilot-in-chief. Both officers fully
confided. in the seamanship of Captain Sharpe,
of the Trident, now converted into an acting
master in her Majesty's service. The officers and
men all concurred in approving of the change to the
Trident, for their eyes had been much inflamed by the
smoke from the two steamers ahead of the Royal
George, though they could not but regret that her
gallant Captain could not have the honour of bringing
the Queen home as well as out.

Her Majesty and the Prince kept on deck all day.
They were determined to have one more look at every
interesting object, and their questions showed some
knowledge of the coast. As they approached the dis-
trict of Alnwick Castle, they began a little debate as to
whether the edifice would be seen or not. The Queen
thought they should see it—Prince Albert was of a
contrary opinion ; and one word brought up another,
until they appealed to Captain Bullock, who gave his
casting vote against her Majesty, explaining that it
was covered by a dip in the hind. However, if the
castle was not seen it was very well heard, for it fired
a royal salute in excellent style. On Friday morning
the Trident was off Flamborough Head. When
islands were approached they sailed between them and
the main land, steering as well as possible through
the centre of any fleet of merchant ships which they
came up with, her Majesty being desirous that all
parties should have an opportunity of seeing and
being seen. When they made the Fern Islands her
Majesty remembered the heroism of Grace Darling,
and was evidently touched on hearing that the brave
young woman had died but a few days before.
rt• * *

The Queen is a good sailor, but as yet Prince Al-
bert does not relish the salt water. He was so dis-
tressed at one time that he was obliged to say he was
" struggling between nausea and hunger.' The
Queen assured him it would be all over by the
time he reached Windsor Castle, at which he-could
not help laughing a little. The redundancy and cu-
riosity of the fair sex astonished him. " Wherever I
go," he said, " I see as many women as men, even
here at sea in open boats."
Here want of space obliges us to conclude these
extracts from the " log"—at least for the present.

Baron Rothschild has recently purchased an estate
situate at Mentmore and Ledburn, in the vicinity of
Leighton, where he is expected to erect a splendid man-
sion, and to support a large hunting establishment.—
Bucks Gazette.

MORE BEAUTIES Or THE INCOME-TAX. The
Wilts Independent, speaking of Sir Robert Peel's pet
Income-tax, says :—" On the very first day the returns
were made in Devizes, the contents of the schedules were
rkm:wn, and were the subject of common conversation."—
f fai is a fine practical comment on the Premier's decla-
ration that the Income-tax should be attended with no
unpleasant revelations, but that every man's business
secrets should be maintained inviolate ! Here is another
instance of the working of this delectable impost :—" An
extensive proprietor of cottage tenements," says the
Leeds Times, "has at present one hundred and fifty
houses, for which he receives no rent whatever, forty-six
of them being empty. We believe that owners of cot-
tage property generally have incurred heavy losses of
the same kind during the last six months. It will add
to the afflictions of these parties to find that they will
actually have to pay an Income-tax on the arrears due to
them, and which they may never receive."—To compel a
man to pay a tax, not on that which he has got, but on
that which ho has not got, and never may get ; in a
word, to screw three palpable, substantial pounds, out of
an impalpable, non-existent hundred—this is a stretch
of ingenuity every way worthy of a Tory Premier. The
old adage says, "you can't take the breeks off a High-
lander ;" but Sir Robert Peel says you can, and hastens
to prove the fact by squeezing an Income-tax out of those
whose incomes is a deficit.
ATLAS PRIZE ESSAY.—The Atlas, our weekly con-
temporary, has offered 100/. premium for the best Essay
"on the causes of, and remedies for, the existing distress
of the country." The plan is commendable, and we
trust that all becoming renown and advantage may at-
tend it. The causes nre-1. Misrepresentation ; 2. The
Corn-laws, and the "protective" system generally : the
remedy, complete suffrage; full, fair, and free repre-
sentation. Printed essays, however, are not to bele-
ceived, otherwise we should send in our claim, convinced
that we should stand at the top of the poll ; but as that
is nut the case, and as the causes and remedy are now
obvious to all the world, we must allow the second best
candidate to bear off the prize.—Morning Advertiser.
LODGING-HOUSE SURYANTS.-7 It would frighten
any servant but a real Lon don Cinderella, to go down
into the kitchen ill a morning, and see the work those
little hands have to do. The rows of boots and shoes to
clean—the candlesticks to rub bright—the dishes to wash
up—the pots and pans to scour—the rugs to shake—the
about of,her own, all the week,
washingalthough she is
always adoing, 'hen the number of times she goes in
and out in a day—now off fur tea—then butter—next
time for a chop —then a bottle of soda-water for the gen-
tleman who had drank too much over night—again for
the newspaper—a letter to the post-office—a pair of shoes
to mend—a bundle to be carried to the laundress—a
quartern of gin for the landlady. As she is ever taking
down her little bonnet, which she never ties, and throw-
ing on the half shawl she never pins—then with the
.latch-key in her hand, pointing her head twentydifferent
ways—going—returning—then diving into the kitchen
for a few moments to do her work—then up again to
answer the bell ; and never executing a single command
of the lodgers' without being called into the parlour to
tell the landlady what it was.—Godfrey Malvern.
We have heard a report that it is in contemplation
to stop half-pay from all officers while on leave from their
regiments, except on medical certificate. We do not crc-
pit this report (which throughout the Service would be
regarded as oppressive), but merely mention that it is cur-
rent among men generally well informed on military to-
pics.—Natal and Military Gazette.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last night an inquest was
held at the Coal-hole Tavern, Fountain-court, Strand,
before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Jemima Maria Sutton,
an infant, six weeks old. It appeared from the evidence,
that the parents of the child were respectable persons,
living at No. 4, Fountain-court. On Thursday morning
last Mrs. Sutton was walking down stairs with the
deceased in her arms, when she unfortunately slipped and
fell down several stairs. The screams of the infant
brought Mrs. Fitzgibbon, the landlady of the house, and
others on the landing, when they discovered Mrs. Sutton
stretched on the floor, in a strong fit. The deceased was
lying about a yard distant from her. The mother was
assisted to her bed-chamter, and came to shortly after.
She was severely bruised by the fill ; the deceased del
not at the time appear injured. The assistaet of Mr.
Wentherfield, surgeon, of Henrietta-street, Covent-
garden, attended Mrs. Sutton, and gave his opinion that
the fall had been brought on by an epileptic fit. The
child showed no symptom of having received injury by
the fall, and continued in apparent good health. On
Sunday morning, however, she was found dead on the
right ,ide of the mother. The Jury returned a verdict
of "Died by the visitation of God.