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special heemraden in Albany.—Establishment of Albany as a separate district.—Entire failure of the wheat crops in 1820.—Condition of the British settlers in June 1821.—Disbandment of the Royal African corps.—Formation of the village of Fredericksburg on the right bank of the Beka river.—Conduct of the Xosas.—Establishment of fairs at Fort Wiltshire.—Establishment of an astronomical observatory at the Cape.—Foundation of the old Somerset hospital in Capetown.—Establishment of a commercial exchange.—Establishment of a Roman catholic church in Capetown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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General Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor, resumed duty 1st December 1821; embarked for England on leave of absence 5th March 1826.
Resumption of duty by Lord Charles Somerset.—Causes of ill feeling between Lord Charles Somerset and Sir Rufane Donkin.—Report upon Fort Willshire.—Engagement by Dr. George Thom of Scotch clergymen for the colonial church and of teachers for schools of a high class at the principal villages.—Depression of the colony in 1821.—Failure of the wheat crop of 1821 in Albany.—Stoppage of rations to the British settlers at the end of 1821.—Dispersion of many of the settlers.—Prohibition of slave labour by the settlers.—Removal of the seat of magistracy of Albany from Bathurst to Grahamstown.—Total abandonment of Fredericksburg.—Prohibition of public meetings.—Proclamation concerning the law of inheritance.—Announcement of the substitution of English instead of Dutch as the official language of the colony.—Establishment of the South African public library.—Attempt to form a museum in Capetown.—Destructive storm in July 1822.—Removal of the magistracy from Tulbagh to Worcester.—Abolition of the sub-drostdy of Caledon.—Dealings with the Xosas.—Marks of progress in the colony.—Erection of the first lighthouse on the coast.—Construction of a good road through the French Hoek pass.—Introduction of a party of Irish labourers by Mr. John Ingram.—Condition of the British settlers in May 1823.—Release of the settlers from debt to government.—Terrific floods in Albany in October 1823.—Progress thereafter made in Albany.—Extension of the northern border of the colony.—Abolition of the sub-drostdy of Cradock.—Creation of the district of Somerset.—Arrival of the first steamship in Table Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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