2JO SOUTH AFRICA. 



support, but surely petitions to the Imperial 

 Government embodying a statement of all 

 existing grievances and requesting its assistance 

 in an endeavour to procure substantial reforms is 

 indicated, and should be attempted. 



Expert jurists may perhaps be able to discover 

 the difference between a state subject to the 

 suzerainty of a monarch and of a feudatory one 

 "pur et simple." Any plain man of fairly good 

 mental capacity will probably come to the con- 

 clusion that although some possible difference 

 may be discoverable, no adverse distinction is 

 obvious. Assuming this as a fact, it becomes clear 

 that the right to interfere in supreme cases is 

 unquestionable ; it is equally clear that the question 

 at issue between the British population of the 

 Transvaal and of the Government of the 

 Uitlanders generally, and of all investors in 

 property in South Africa, renders the case urgent 

 Surely a monarch is within his or her right in 

 interfering with a view to avert a palpable danger 

 to the peace and prosperity of an Empire and its 

 dependencies when these are threatened by the 

 action of an unfriendly feudatory state. 



It must be by no means inferred from the 



