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and ruin on the industrious and 
peaceably disposed settlers of this 
eolony, I shall be exonerated from 
the reproach of my own conscience 
by this frank overture ; and you 
must justify to yourself, and to 
your countrymen, the farther cfiu- 
sion of blood, and the desolation 
of the country.—You are necessa- 
rily so well acquainted with the extent 
of the calamities in which the inte- 
rior of the country may be involved, 
that I shall not enlarge upon your 
power of causing» mischief to be 
done to all its mhabitants; but, I 
persuade myself that’ considerations 
of amore laudable nature. will in- 
fluence your decision on ,this occa- 
sion; and that you will manifest an 
immediate disposition to promote a 
general tranquillity.—I have the 
honour ,to subscribe, with senti- 
ments of the highest respect, and 
consideration. Sir, yours, &c, 
D. Barn, 
Maj.-gen. commander in chief. 
To lieut.-gen. Janssens, Sc. 
A letter from sir H. Popham to 
W. Marsden, esq. gives a detail of 
the expedition, to the same effect as 
that in the dispatch of sir D, Baird. 
—Itappears, that every exertion 
was made by the naval forces to fa- 
cilitate, with safety, the landing of 
the troops ; and that the cause of 
the upsetting of one of the boats 
was their anxiety to be first ashore. 
—Sir Home, after paying the high- 
est compliments to captains Row- 
ley, Byng, Butterfield, and the 
whole of the officers and men under 
his command, regrets that no brilli- 
ant service fell to the lot of the squa- 
dron, which maintained with una- 
bated zeal the most laborious duty 
that could be experienced. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1806. 
A Dispatch received from Mijore 
General Sir D. Baird, at the Cape 
of Good Hope, dated Jan. 26, 
containing the Capitulation of the 
Settlement of the Cape of Good 
Hope, 
IT had the honour to address” 
your lordship, on the 13th inst. relae 
tive to the situation of affairs in 
this colony ; and l. new proceed to 
submit. to your lordship the subse. 
quent operations against the Bata- 
vian forces,commandedby lieut.-gen. 
Janssens. and which have terminat- 
ed in the subjection of the whole 
culony.—Aceording to my orders, 
brig.-gen. Beresford advanced. with 
a detachment of the army on the 
13th inst. to oceupy the village of 
Stellenbosch, and secure the strong 
pass of Roode Sand, with a view to 
exclude the Batavian forces from 
that productive portion of the dis- 
trict, and to preserve to ourselves 
an undisturbed intercourse with the 
farmers below the Kloof. Lieut.- 
gen, Janssens made no efforts to 
dispute these objects, but contented 
himself with moving his forces to 
the submit of Hottentot Holland’s 
Kloof, and there took post, waiting, 
apparently, to receive some overs 
tures of pacification.  Brig.-gen. 
Beresford availed himself of this as- 
pect of affairs to transmit to lieut.- 
gen. Janssens a letter from me, and 
took that occasion of announcing 
that he was vested with powers. to 
come to an accommodation with 
the licutenant-general. This pro. 
position produced a truce for the 
purpose of carrying on a negoti. 
ation ; but it were superfluous to 
occupy your Jordship’s time by des 
tailing the various pretensious and 
arguments urged by  lieut.-gen, 
Janssens 
