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lined with spectators ; not drawn together for the sake of ex- 
pressing a boisterous joy usual on such occasions, but to take 
a melancholy farewel of their best friends. As General 
Dundas passed along with the Commissary General de Mist 
and the Governor Jansens, a dead silence prevailed ; not a 
word nor a murmur was heard. And the friendly and afFec- 
tionate leave the Commanders in Chief of the two garrisons 
took of each other, after the delicate and trying situation in 
which, for the two last months, they had been placed, in con- 
-sequence of the order from England countermanding the 
restoration of the settlement, was highly honorable to their 
feelings, both as men and officers. Few places, I believe, 
have been ceded by one power to another with m.ore regularity 
and less commotion, than what happened at the restoration 
of the Cape of Good Hope, by General Dundas on the part 
of his Majesty's Government, to the representatives of the 
Batavian Republic. 
END OF THE FIRST X'OLUMK. 
