...profit of this traffic. This petition failed in its object. It was referred to the fiscal, WC Bi IF.ES, whose report upon it shows clearly the principles...therefore in precisely the same position as their ancestor^. This was not only the theory bat the practice of the law, since citizens could be, and were,...

...still denied them. " If that were granted," said one of the officials (the Fiscal Boers), " the Cape would soon be no longer a subordinate colony, but an independent State." The matter, however, was not allowed to rest. The colonists, in 1785, again sent delegates, who bore...

...Company, from the concession to a colony, situated midway between Europe and the Indies of free commerce are manifest; it would soon be no longer a subordinate colony but an independent State. 1 Is it not clear that, up to the day of the first British occupation in 1795, the 'free burghers'...

...Company, from the concession to a colony situated midway between Europe and the Indies, of free commerce, are manifest. It would soon be no longer a subordinate colony, but an independent State. 1 The material advance achieved by a community thus administered on the narrowest lines of the old...