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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
started on their last and crowning victory over 
Dingaan and his forces, Sir George ISTapier, 
having been ordered to send the 72nd regiment 
home, and finding that the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, still continued little inclined 
to support his policy of occupying this district, 
sent a vessel to the Bay, with orders to Capt. 
Jarvis to embark with his whole detachment ; 
on which occasion, he addressed a letter to the 
Landdrost, "Koos," at D'Urban ; which, after 
referring to some complaints of natives as to 
encroachments on their gardens, contained the 
following farewell address and peroration. H It 
now only remains for me on taking my depar- 
ture, to wish you one and all as a community, 
every happiness, sincerely hoping, that aware 
of your strength, peace may be the object of 
your counsels; justice, prudence, and modera- 
tion, be the law of your actions; that your 
proceedings may be actuated by motives, wor- 
thy of you as men and Christians, that hereafter 
your arrival may be hailed as a benefit ; having 
enlightened ignorance, dispelled superstition, 
and caused crime, bloodshed, and oppression to 
cease, and that you may cultivate these beauti- 
ful regions in quiet and prosperity, ever re- 
gardful of the rights of the inhabitants, whose 
country you have adopted, and whose home 
you have made your own." 
