IV. The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington. Compiled from official and authentic documents by Lieut.- Colonel Gurwood, Esquire to his Grace as Knight of the V.-1. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and States- men. By Walter Savage Landor, Esq. 2. Imaginary Conversations. Second Series. 4. Gebir, Count Julian, and other Poems. VII. 1. Second Report of his Majesty's Commissioners ap- pointed to consider the State of the Established Church in England and Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical 2. Charge delivered by Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, at his Triennial Visitation, October, 1836. 3. Remarks on the Prospective and Past Benefits of Cathe- dral Institutions in the promotion of sound Religious Knowledge, and of Clerical Education. By Edward Bouverie Pusey, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew, &c., 4. A Letter to Archdeacon Singleton on the Ecclesiastical Commission. By the Rev. Sydney Smith. 5. On the Proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: a Letter to the Bishop of Lincoln. By Christopher Ben- son, M.A., Master of the Temple. VIII.-Portugal and Gallicia, with a Review of the Social and I.-1. Germany in 1831. By John Strang, author of 'Tales of Humour and Romance, from the German of Hoffmann, Langbein, Lafontaine, &c.' 'Necropolis Glasguensis,' &c. 2. Sketches of Germany and the Germans; with a Glance at Poland, Hungary, and Switzerland in 1834, 1835, and 1836. By an Englishman resident in Germany - 297 II.—A History of British Fishes. By William Yarrell, F.L.S. 334 sechszehnten und siebenzehnten Jahrhundert. Von Leo- (The Popes of Rome, their Church and State, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By Leopold Ranke.) 371 IV. Les Après-Diners de S. A. S. Cambacères, Second Consul, &c. ou Révélations de plusieurs Grands Personages, sur l'Ancien Régime, le Directoire, l'Empire, et la Restaura- tion. Recueillis et publiés par le Baron E. L. de Lamothe- Langon, Auditeur au Conseil d'Etat Imperial ;-Auteur de 'L'Histoire de l'Inquisition de France,'-des ' Mé- · VII.-1. Opinions de Napoléon sur divers sujets de Politique et d'Administration, recueillies par un Membre de son Con- seil d'état; et recit de quelques evénemens de l'époque. Par le Baron Pelet (de la Lozère), Membre de la Chambre 2. Napoleon in Council; or, Opinions delivered by Buo- naparte in the Council of State. Translated from the French of Baron Pelet (de la Lozère), Member of the VIII.-1. Lettres sur l'Amerique du Nord. Par Michel Che- 2. A Residence in France, with an Excursion up the Rhine, X.-1. Report of the Record Commission, with Minutes of 2. Observations on the Report from the Committee of the House of Commons. By the Commissioners of Public 3. A Leaf omitted out of the Record Report. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.—1. Abstract of the Proceedings of the Board of Relief for the Destitute, &c. at the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town. 2. Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, descriptive of the Zoolus, their Manners, Customs, &c. with a Sketch of Natal. By Nathaniel Isaacs. 2 Vols. London. 1836. 3. Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country, in South Africa. By Captain Allen F. Gardiner, R.N. Undertaken in 1835. London. 1836. THERE was a time that the Cape of Good Hope, when in the hands of the Dutch, and, indeed, since its conquest by Great Britain, was considered a place of first-rate importance, both in itself, and by its position. It was held in such estimation as to determine the government of that day, at the general peace, to annex it permanently to the British crown; indeed, when that object was about to be accomplished, the late Henry Dundas (afterwards Lord Melville) declared, in the House of Commons, that the minister, who should dare to give it up, ought to lose his head—of such consequence, in a political point of view, was its retention considered to be by one of the longest-headed statesmen of his age. Independent, however, of the political advantages derivable from this half-way house between England and India, there is not perhaps, on the face of the globe, a spot which, taken altogether, can be deemed preferable to the Cape as a place of residence. Situated in a climate equally removed from oppressive heat and shivering cold-where the fig-tree, and the vine, and the orange luxuriate in the open air, requiring but little aid at the hand of man-where the atmosphere is almost always pure, clear, and dry,-it has been found so congenial with the feelings and pursuits of that amiable and accomplished scholar and philosopher, Sir John Herschell, that, hardly able to tear himself away, he is ready to say with Horace-(as indeed he has said, in other and stronger words)— 'Ille terrarum mihi præter omnes Yet with all these enchantments, and notwithstanding its high political value, this southern angle of Africa has scarcely, of late years, excited a degree of interest equal to Botany Bay or New Zealand, Zealand. Our ministers did, it is true, soon after the conclusion of the war, send out at the public expense an ill-assorted cargo of emigrants, permitting them to locate themselves on the untenanted and unappropriated lands near the eastern boundary of the Colony-by far the most productive district, whether for grazing or for tillage, in the whole settlement; but labouring under the great disadvantage of being removed five or six hundred miles from the seat of government. It had also a further drawback, in being situated close to the frontiers of the Caffre country. Such proximity had constantly led, so long as the Dutch were the sole occupiers of the soil, to a mutual pilfering of cattle —a kind of black-mail business-the consequence of which was, not only a constant collision of interests, but now and then a murder on one side or the other, and the setting fire to huts and houses; but here the matter ended-conflicts of this kind being generally made up between the Dutch boors and the Caffres, without the interference of the governing powers on either side. The same sort of collision disturbed and distracted our emigrants of 1819-as the readers of Mr. Pringle's African Sketches will remember. It was hoped, however, that the influx of a more respectable and substantial class of British settlers than the first batch, whose numbers might be expected speedily to increase, and in fact did so, would put a stop to the incursions of the Caffres, by establishing a better understanding with this fine race of men-for such they are allowed to be by all travellers. A treaty, accordingly, was soon made with these people, who are by no means to be accounted savages, by which it was agreed, in order to preserve peace and friendship, that a neutral ground should be established between the Great Fish River (the British boundary) and the Keiskamma (the Caffre boundary); and as a security against either party's transgressing the limits, three small forts were erected, at intervals, down the centre of this neutral slip of land-Beaufort, Wiltshire, and Fredricksburgh. Under these arrangements the inhabitants of the great eastern plain, called the Zuure Veldt, were rapidly advancing in wealth and prosperous circumstances. circumstances. Their herds and flocks increased, and the breed of both was improved by importations of the best kind; pasturage and tillage went hand in hand, towns and villages arose on the heretofore naked plains,-churches and school-houses were built,-and Graham's Town, near our frontier, had become the populous capital of this flourishing territory. Things went on thus prosperously until the end of the year 1834, when the colonists bordering close on the frontier, and scattered here and there in their single dwellings along the whole |