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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1826-1840)
| Date transcribed | 2009-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Sue McKay - Marianne Mansfield | | Comment | Sue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa. |
| | Publication Date | 26 March 1836 | | | Event Date | 27 February 1836 | | | Surname | Smith | | | Rank or Occupation | Hon. Col Commanding Province of Queen Adelaide | | | Full Entry | Saturday 26 March 1836: Dep.Qtr.Master Gen’s Office, King William’s Town, 27th Feb 1836: Gentlemen,In acknowledging receipt of your letter of the 15th inst, which I received yesterday, I am scarcely competent to express any very decided opinion, from a want of knowledge of frontier affairs before the war. It is with great pleasure and satisfaction, however, that I avow none of our new subjects complained of the traders before the late irruption; and of some they speak in terms of regard, asking when they will return. The labour attendant on trade here formerly must have been excessive; and such arduous undertakings merit a fair profit. Competition can alone establish it upon a just and equitable basis, and nothing can be more prejudicial to its real interest than combination. The expression in the orders I issued is an assumption, “if such was their conduct”. You, gentlemen, must be the best judges of your own actions, and if conscientiously you feel that your conduct as traders was fair and manly before the war (certainly nothing to the contrary has been brought under my observation) this personal gratification and self-satisfaction must be superior to anything I can advance in proof of it. Be assured facts will establish the supremacy over prejudices and prepossession, as well as over those predilections of the human mind which have the greatest influence in perverting its judgement. I have the honor to be &c, H.G. SMITH, Colonel | | | Reference ( National Archives - Kew) | CO53/4 |
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