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USE OF STRONG LANGUAGE JUSTIFIED. 379" I am 'till willing to agru to any of the four Ambassadors selectedby your Excellency . . •II A" .0011 "" I rIC';'" your E:ecel18noy" tIIIent to thi. pro pO.M, I caahave the Deed of Submission drawn up . . .cc To tM propo.;t.on tW power lAoultl be r"e1'f1§ • . • that H.B.Majesty's Sec. of State for the Colonies shall fill up the plaoe of theAmbassador declining, I r'gret IMt I DiJnnot gi"e tM "",ent oj ourGo"ernmmt, for that would 'be tantamount to leaving the choice ofthe Super-Arbiter to one of the conteuding parties . , ,II • • • A,., fIJI unJortuntJuly M'" not yet quite arr i"erl at an agrummt,Mt eM molt important point, viz., the seleotion of the Super­Arbiter, it would . . . delay the . . . settlement . . . if a Deed ofSubmission were drawn up bl/ore we M"e agrurl upon all tM ""ntiMpoint,."From the above it is evident Sir H. Barkly wilfullydeceived the Cape Parliament, and that, in reality,instead of striving to arrange the difficulty by arbitration,he was availing himself of any and every subterfugeto gain time.Those who have followed this Chapter so far mayperhaps agree that the Cape Government never desiredarbitration, and did its best to prevent it. Sir H.Barkly had two objects to gain by delay: 1. ThereveRue 'being then illegally derived from the diamondfields -by the brigand Junta he had established to doexactly what he had objected to, in his despatch datedJune 22nd, 1871, upon the part of the Free State, viz.,"that while the discussion progresses the lands indispute are being deprived of their chief valw by havingthe diamonds extracted therefrom under license andauthority of your Honour's Government"! (So he,being the strongest, seized those lands, did, and desiredto continue doing, exactly that which he declared theFree State ought not to do !) 2. In order to screenhimself from the responsibility for his filibusteringDigitized by Goog Ie