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Letter from Lt Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade to his father dated King William’s Town 1 Aug 1849. The wish of the Government in London to make Cape Colony a penal settlement has provoked such an unfavourable reaction in Cape Town that Harry Smith and his wife require a military escort From a collection of letters to England from Captain Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade while serving in Cape Colony, 1848-1853.