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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1841-1851)

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Date transcribed2010-00-00
Transcribed bySue Mackay - Marianne Mansfield - Colleen Sharpe Williams
CommentSue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa.

Publication Date  23 March 1850    
Full Entry  Saturday 23 March 1850: The reader will find below various opinions from the press of India and England respecting their late defensive operations in the case of the Neptune. The adverse opinions are now harmless. Success has broken their point. The friends of the Colony, however, are respectfully requested to drop the words �revolt� and �rebellion� and the like, though they are not meant by them to convey censure, or to be taken in their legal sense. There was no revolt or rebellion at the Cape. The inhabitants simply declined to be accessory to their own ruin; and neither their allegiance, nor any existing law required of them to sell their goods to the agents of Lord Grey. If the Cape is to be imitated by other Colonies, or other Countries, let them see that their cause is equally good, and their conduct equally peaceable, loyal and legal.     
Reference  CO53/9 at the National Archives, Kew, London    
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