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304 SCHEME OF THE LATE CAPE GOVERNMENT.could not. • . admit tiny of the conclusions which the deputationcame prepared to press upon me."( 0 Bi sic omnia! ~ad Sir H. Barkly only as promptlyand perspicuously picked out one false statement inWaterboer's trumped-up case, and thus severely, uponthe maxim that falsehood once detected permeates thewhole of a witness's evidence, refused to "admit anyof" hu " conclusions," what reputation for consistency,for impartiality, for critical power, for judicial qualities,might he not have gained !)From this point every effort was made by the ColonialGovernment to obtain the annexation of the FreeState diamond fields to itself. In order to fulfil the threeconditions Earl Kimberley stipulated for as those alonepossible to induce Her Majesty's Government to consentto annexation, in his despatch of instructions toSir H. Barkly dated November 17th, 1870, noticedin our last Chapter, we must carefully remember thatit was the policy of the Colonial Government to makeMinisters in Downing Street believe:1. THAT THB "ExTBN810N OJ!' TllB SOUTH AFRIOA.N CoLONIB8COULD" (not) CI BB AVOIDED."2. THAT THE " COLONY" (would) " BB 'WILLING TO TAKE UPON ITSELFTHE FULL B.B8PONSIBILITIE8 01' GoVBIUQB1ItT, WITH THE Bl1BDU01' :a.tAJlfTAINING THE FOBOB NB0B88A.BY." (TO BOLD THE DIA.XONDPIELDS).3. THAT " THB WHITE DOlIGBA.NT8 "(TJIB DIGGBRS) " OOBOl7DlQ)WITH THE NATIVES IN DB8mmG THAT THB GBIQUA TE&BITOBY" (~_.OLUDING THB DLUlOND I'IlILDS) "SHOULD BE IDIlTBD TO THE OAR.CoLONY."Sir H. Barkly worked energetically and successfullyindeed to make the British Government credit thesethree affirmative replies to Earl Kimberley'S hypothetiealtriune proviso.Digitized by Goog Ie