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TRAVELS IN 
decifion of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, when on a fome- 
what fimilar occafion he fettled a difpute of precedency be- 
tvv'een two women of fafhion at Bruffels ; " Let the greateft fim- 
*' pleton of the two have the pas which made the two 
ladies prodigioufly civil to each other ever afterwards, both 
ftriving which (bould give, inftead of take, the precedency. A 
Dutch nobleman, who is the only titled man in the colony, 
and who held in the old government one of the highefl: employ- 
ments, felt no degradation in aflbciating with butchers, nor in 
beftowing the hand of his daughter on an attorney who, for 
his mal-pradlices, had been publicly declared infamous by the 
Court of Juftice ; but he would have thought himfelf difgraced 
if his wife and daughter were deprived of their rank in the 
church. 
There are, however, as muft be the cafe in every fociety, a 
number of worthy people in the colony, to whom the above 
obfervations do not apply : men, whofe talents and information, 
propriety of condudl:, and ftridt integrity, would command re- 
fpedt in any part of the world ; but the number of thefe is com- 
paratively lo fmall, as to make only an exception to the general 
charader. Lneed fcarcely obferve, that thefe people met with 
that confideration and attention from the Britifh government to 
which they were entitled ; whilft thofe of the other clafs expe- 
rienced the negle£t and contempt they fo juftly deferved. — But 
to return to Klaas Stuurman and his party. 
From the barbarous treatment of the boors towards the Hot- 
tentots in their fervice, of which we had ourfelves been wit- 
nefTes 
