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George, Earl Macartney, Governor, installed 5th May 1797; retired 20th November 1798.
Appointment of the earl of Macartney as governor.—His arrival in South Africa.—Character of the administration of Lord Macartney.—Banishment of Commandant Petrus Jacobus Delport.—Regulations concerning commerce.—Alterations in the courts of justice.—Improvement in the mode of payment of civil servants.—Treatment of Bushmen and Xosas.—Assumption of duty by Mr. Frans Reinhard Bresler as landdrost of Graaff-Reinet.—Tour of Messrs. Bresler and Barrow among the Xosas in the Zuurveld.—Account of the Xosa chief Gaika.—Visit of Messrs. Bresler and Barrow to Gaika.—Establishment of the first post-office in the colony.—Proclamation defining the eastern and northern boundaries.—Prices of bread and meat.—Statistics of trade, revenue, and shipping.—Establishment of a church at Swellendam.—Mutiny in the fleet of war on the Cape station, and its suppression.—Reduction of the military and naval force at the Cape.—Return to England of Lord Macartney on account of ill health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Major-General Dundas, acting governor, 21st November 1798 to 9th December 1799.
Assumption of duty by Major-General Dundas as acting governor.—Great fire in Capetown.—Insurrection of a party of farmers in Graaff-Reinet.—Its suppression by General Vandeleur.—Invasion of the colony by a horde of Xosas under the chief Ndlambe.—Attack on British troops by the people of Cungwa.—Massacre of a party of soldiers.—Insurrection of Hottentots in the district of Graaff-Reinet.—Progress of the war with the Xosas and Hottentots.—Establishment of a kind of truce by Mr. H. Maynier.—Erection of Fort Frederick at Algoa Bay.—Appointment of Mr. Maynier as commissioner for the districts of Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet.—Capture of the French frigate Prudente with volunteers to aid the insurgents of Graaff-Reinet.—Defeat of the French frigate Preneuse in Algoa Bay.—Account of the Namaqua captain Afrikaner.—Dealings with Bushmen on the northern frontier.—Establishment of missions by the London society.—Shipwrecks in Table Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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