Suggestions respecting the Cape of Good Hope
- ZA HPRA A88-28 (30)
- Item
- 29 July 1796
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Advises that the government should not be left to the East India Company, as the Dutch had done, but should be vested in a Governor and Supreme Council; gradual improvements can be made to the fiscal system and to the Dutch system of judges and magistrates; trader should be free except for the East Indian trade which must remain a monopoly of the East India Company; the real advantage of the Cape to Britain is the security it gives to the Indian empire.
(Rood.).