LORD GREY'S FAREWAL TI ) TIIE

AmoNG the most creditable of iOra Grey's public satilmfin4tonte• time, is his retraetation freni. the false ••position tosikardlilthetiOaps• of Good Hope : ititffords•therefere'nf OtOtiryliite *it 0144 qieseihef as a statemintn. The despatch in which he sign4Altat idiactatigik, is rim/4641y from his own pen1,t,;16 his style, and the mit**. nessOf the personal feeling infused..inteit-attosts the autograplayt it-is tlgtelPirOfft gamble, exdretple by which tar judge hint—owlet fortili.bythimeelf, not without deliberation or.piticitaking -: For -a. man Of capacity, the tusk impend_ upon' hini wasiOnh, net mithciiit its'opportunities fur magnanimity r,onfeas OimseU in the wrong,-riki task, always unpleasanti:*ut highly' f.a- vourahle to the display of Magnanimity from its - being so gene- rally understood and appreciated; he had to restore a right feel- *, with ft. corrected policy, , to the relation . between his govern- ment and the colony.;- and; in that restoration might have beet shown It, toot 'ablest to redeem the mistake which hail produced the bad feeling. Re might have clothed his intenl inmp. and i.ed lingnage. q• :;', - Ot in one of these pertiWilitts!doels Inrcl Grey's On1PcfsitipItt, sustain- the 'repute which ..w;b*hir.. -ed. b) antiOiation—a au:tii4atiOn based ol)011 tb*Ptilmig:4;;"' elf11,40ikilnOtliO0 and the' name of his lineage. He claims now the privilegc.s of ma• - turity, and ly-hin•derimanour arrogates to a eenarmed: re- flown: he does but heap proof upon.' proof I that the .144comige of his

Tenth was a fallary.' ei4l'oidorg; as

lington in his despatches, so Grey may be „. oWn;,,toriiis

peeitions. They are a self-offered nieasurajoulisraoter,aeint

statesman: :0 • 7.-er .03.1.71109-drisqf • Lord' Grey had to declare 'Mese& •• in the wrfing,fittills. the zight2-660643 asthe 0036441106idu

' lill ,114trit§' statesalai Weddlaie don aioidrIb1 Grey prefaces his announcement in the folloving

very commencement of his despatch. ,°,let " Downing Attest, Nov. go; nea: 1, "Sir-1 have hitherto deferred replying to your despatches Ile4.106,:of the!. 29th Inge and No. 123 of the,24th July, which reached Me nearly: together::. in the middle Of the month of September, -because k had every reason to lievo that they must be alniest immediately followed by farther ,despatolies- from you which„ might probably convey to me intelligehoe ot-a- enniiderabln change in the imp* of affairs .in the colour. My despatch: of the 18th of announcing the determination of her:Majesty's,Govermnent to abstahr forma sending- any more,:conviets to tlie Cape, which nrielat have been BY.■ pected to reach you even earlier thau the date at whiohreu wrote, and could hardly fail to do so :very soon afterwards, -was calculated, as I trusted, - to palm the excitement which had been created;, while thoped thata.similar effect.w-ould be produced when it was found,. OR the asrival of the expected::: ship with convicts from Bermuda, (which bad been howler et :Pernambuco,: as having reached that port and again proceeded on her "voyage,) that the convicts so .sent,., who were not to be followed by any, anore,,wetee, Of a very different description from the criminals usually sent to ci penal- colony% r• 'fence, believing that a very sbortdelay would be occasioned by waiting for further intelligence froth you. I.considered it better to Mow ththslelay than to send. you immediate instructions; which that intelligent* intighli show to be no longer well adapted to an altered state of afkliirs.f.5:-1 " But :1 DOW. ficd„ by the; usual list youhave forwardea of despatches re.:- ceived by you, that mine of , the 18th of -April, tJeetigh haa xot been answered, had reached you. some time before the .date of the last advioes. I' learn :also from the newspapers published in time colony, that the Niiilunci with the convicts from Bermuda had arrived; batthotthe Oenrieta ,on had not been permitted to land, being detained an board in Simon's Bay, as it is stated, till furthgrinstractiona aree#..froui myself Auld, that the exciteinent Which has been created; far .■57 having subsided, had ap greatly' to have increased. 'I Oin furthdriftfOrkied; by a ,:umnm,iuuicationl have receivetifrom the Admiralty, of the attempt which had been Made to prevent any description of supplies from being furnished for her Majesty's service, naval, military, or civil, with the view of enforcing the departure of the Nep- at least would be Ward eaviibmif e -6silicbn. TW riii(eillii• which I ac- knowledge, tit, might Safe y , calated that theY 1 Vie 'ti4iffitcic(ttosi,7-aertl% lititt8unite"mutiasaiassto6- knowledge, and sylidli8lAgiestly Tani ?in- The "-truly geltetionti assistame Vitv•the old taunt about the pay- ment of the CaffteAtarp into witialrbtheVaPe was plunged-by the policy. dictated from, Dtitbningli street-:'- Lord Grey ' !vouches the' acknowledgment: of his oftvn' errorin• the insinuation of an told, idle; vapid taunt against .those whom hie," error." had provoked to -a just resistance&-a resistance " founded on feelings that are entitled to respect," and justified by his ultimate ecnoossion: • • : :, ,, But he cannot simply. retraet : ha mast try-to retaliate ; and-to that end he casts reiterated censdre. utiott the:'061onists and - the Governor, still in the saute strainof querulous, lttgitbiiotie; garru- lous diffuseness. . ...,Tat cii .. :., ,y.c::.

"On the 17th September, your despatch of the 24th July, Na 123, was received,om whick 4 iptot Aitvlyttsf,l,sight excitement . had„,risen ; and that, pi.cansequente of thsextraerdusewproceedings..whielt taken pltice, yeti hal, ?nee rinileiveAf,9AW,-Nblicy,imilowiour determina- tion !Mete permit theladnik of the colirkts-hoidlk e by the ',rep: tune. ict ... . :; . ---,-:.-. ti a fiTIM3 911 ..._272,t. : ... -1 "I hapre:elr itfated,lithat Ifilidgisstiminediatelranairirthis despatch; because I was in exaestatitailliA(Ii_shimarecrove frail iou further in-1:

telligenee, *high Palltezifil _ef the,inetracontit . ,

be proper to give. hetr A a any instreedons Whic tt e l f ije'ijt.ifin assistance M you iri,tn Oil itlidoi 'Mehl - 'Or ',.-.•.osing'ef 'the' Bermuda convicts. They had for three or four weeks been hourly:expected: to ath'o a a.e V?Poi jbeu Mt wtotteeoate (tatsouths;Before) i theAe- sPat0 _0 teil-il xj,e BermuiltstPev ausulutd already; stifle in eo was 'sal lal :rilI eti- whbirther dekit alse'ltetve4 beiii

sinuation against the Governor and the colonists. .

"I forbear to express my opinion-either on the extraordinary proceedings tune with the convicts : but, though I have despatches from you on other liubjects up to five days after the arrival of the Neptune, I have none contain- big any information of the arrival of the Neptune, as to what had then oc- curred on this subject, or as to the measures which you might have in con- templation. In these circumstances, I can no longer postpone transmitting, to you instructions for your guidance ; and in iloin ' Bo, It will be necessary Ltit that I should in the first place briefly review the ' course of proceedings

upon this subject, and explain what have been . grounds on which her Majesty's Government have acted in the various measures wItieh have been adopted."

. Here is a shoal of " whiches " and "huts" and "ether" 'de- spatches, "further," "Pinner," and potential—he.aped up in a pile of small excuses to show that Lord Grey had never been purely in the wrong: he is as anxious as an old ladT to "explain all the circumstances, my dear," with a minutpness'of justification peculiar to the feminine character when it is impugned. Even thus early it is insinuated that part of the niiseliief arose from Sir Henry, Smith's negli nC4ii,4 not Wpting,

Lord Grey hh goes on, lengthily and laboriously, to recapitu- late how he ha intended to distribute some tickbt-otleave men among the colonies, and how,.anticipating.th cqnstait 4,the Cape —which he had ever4re4onAolitiunitienin, —110,4481# out to "that vast territory. .onlyplytiyjnen, .j. few" iiinlred. con- yids of a peduliar dest,ont, : At lenek.., ' ds elf up to the work of -cof.ajaaias • ;'..f ,erroir,",1 ..., ,; ) .. -,., . . "Under this Muir-kis-ion, lebommendedlt e view m question (to whom were' afteiwaids tiddrYktfne Others, ' ' rdiillteiiilefi for indul- gence on account Of=theiispeenTiar'goodleon Of detention- with- out committing aseyslault) shoulfi-. ba;emoved totilid pe5tWithoutwaitine. till yew answcwichroy circular despatch could boreceived; belitadng that ini- doing: so I was ,. ,nnt _departing inueny,degrpe.from4he spirit of that circular, in Which I infornitedyttli of 'tiles lintendefi ' WM Meet the imme- diate referredWthe adoption efermanelApy • The.leite.,r ;indeed,

diate emergency, bore the sailtV * di the '' , itit.d *de forwarded by

the same opportunity. - i With Jiia infoimattoit sflesSibefore.me, I-greatly la- ment that this step should them heen.talien.?.31fral.1,been;Mittre how strong was the feeling which existed at the Cape. on.thisisubject, I should not have advised the measure which was adopted. Bid rconfess I fell into the error of svposing, that whatever might be the objeini. felt to receiving convicts as an orditiarg practice, ('an OtjeetiOnwhich rtiodili admit to he founded on feelings that mu .eritibled 1C(`-tiedpeet,))there `-tild-"iitill trammel,* the iiiz habitants`, of the soiiitiatit egad forlihrigiiterrilitxtemst of llie Ilrithrh' nation, to wh4l; 4 anee, and also son( whom the diffiedlt of the inhabitants of the Cape, or upon your own conduct ; on the former, because I am unwilling to use the terms which would alone adequately describe what I think of their proceedings; on your own conduct, because I have not yet received your explanation of the grounds upon which you acted, and becipie I should be unwilling to pass any Judgment, prematurely, upon your.course, in circumstances of .undoubtedly great and unprecedented difficulty. '

Lord Grey has at least capacity enough to know what this osten- tatious " forbearance " implies. But he has not done with the colonists yet. In a subsequent despatch, dated on the 5th Decem- ber, he is obliged to confess that Six Harry Smith's explanations jusiify his conduct; and the same hand which had hazarded the repeated insinuations of his earlier despatch is now compelled to signify " her Majesty's approval." It is coupled with the furthet fling at the colonists. .,

have also to express , any the of the, manner in which, in your published 'cominunication the chairnian, cif the public . meeting, held at Cape Town, you pointed out to the coluriitsthe dangeibiii tendency of the c,ourse on which they have entered, and the objectionable nature of the principles which it involved, " llerPiajesty'sGovernmentliave learned with great regret the decease of Mr. Dees, the Surgeon Superintendent of the convicts in the Neptune. It is indeed to be deplored that, after hiving won the confidence and gratitude of the Unfortunate men' intrusted to his care, and also earned the approval of your .intreiting-officer for .the Manner in which he brought them 'out, thiammitoriouanfficer shunkl,,illniest at the moment of arrival, have fall a,eieti,es to feelengs,of pain.,and surprise, occasioned by,the I-guest of the inhakitants of the Cape to allow his pecple the refreshments sndispensabk

to thePresereation of their health." .

SO, the cruelty Of the colonists killed Air. Peas Again we re- coeds. e the style of imputation- common to the Lunde character at a Certain age.. -

, In his own despatches Lord Greyexhibts himself as yielding to colonists whoie public behaviour In' condemns, is giving up, to popu- lar our a policy that he justifies, as trying to find out every excuse 'rather than simply confess his error, and a.s still more indus, trionsli'acconipanying his canfessien with aspersions on his Own embarrassed servant and on the CoIoniats who . vanquish Such is his magnanimity ! His attacks cu Sit'B[arry Smith are answered by- the colonists, in the resolutions 44' tlse :Cape ToWn meeting, with a cool terseness in striking contiald. 'tbIle scolding-

" This meeting learns with satisfaction, that the determination' of his Ex- cellency.Sir Harry Smith, not to permit the'denticts -On heard the Neptune to land tit this-Colt:6y natal he received further instructions, has received her 3Nesty'atrx70.1,• as it had previously received the approbation of the in- habitants:1,, • It waS-Lera Grey's ,business to restore good feeling by.return- ing t9,0Orrgalialipy : . he is lavish in a soardely.toovent TitUporation of the provincials whose good feeling be woos tcrestore they an- swer his small and laboured Bolding thus briedy and vigorously.- " This meeting does not think it necessary to ofter .any remiuks on the offensive expressions used in reference to their proceedings by Earl Grey in his last.despatelies; as they feel that they are wholly -Undeserved, and as they are plly prepared and resOlved to fol7milAe same course, should his Lordship; or any of his successors in ewe, ever threaten them with a similar insult or wrong.' Wbat, is the • feeling that Lord Grey otatrived to -rouse, for a bonne benche. Good feeling, however, was restored in his despite, and the meeting separated with "three cheeisfor the Queen".: they knew how :to distinguish 'between a just Sovereign and an incompe- tent Minister. But,7-vetily, it would. be .b.nzardeus' to Queen Vic- toria's rub, if she were ,very much oftener to try the patience of colonists by sueh Ministers as Lord Orey,---whose most pamnstakin labours can provoke no' feeling but 'contempt and defiance, an wheat return to correct policy is only vouchsafed as the prize of Open :rebellion.