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Torrents of rain had fallen at Gibraltar, and produced a

gratify- ing decrease of fever eases. On the 1311s November there were only twenty-five new cases; and the total had fallen to five hundred and twenty-two. A report that General Don had been attacked by the epidemic, is not believed. A reinforcement of medical men had arrived from London, with a large quantity of medicines.

Sir Lowry Cole, the new Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at the colony in September. The Government is engaged in a petty but troublesome war with some of the savage tribes. In one contest, a few troops destroyed about one thousand of the savages; whilst some of their cowardly native auxiliaries, who kept aloof from the fight, butchered the women and children.

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