Upon the other point, the nature of the terms, Lord
Car- narvon, on. his .assumption, is right. If, as he says, we cannot Make peace without abandoning the "loyalists," i.o., the Dutch who stood by us, and the English resideuts and the English colonists in South Africa, and the native population in the Transvaal, then we ought to continue the war, and we oprsolves doubt grievously whether it will ultimately be avoided. But then the Government believes or hopes that it will be possible
to make peace and yet secure all these necessary ends, and has this ground for hoping it, that the Boer leaders hope it too, and that the Boer population will be indisposed to take up arms with their natives certain to rise in insurrection. There is not the slightest evidence that the Government will abandon any- body it is bound to protect, and much that Lord Kimberley is con- vinced of the necessity of "firmness "—that is, of fighting again rather than give up the terms upon which alone we have offered peace.
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