ABSTRACT
Cape of Good Hope. Oession to Great Britain. In 1652, Table Bay was taken possession of by the Dutch East India
Company. On the 16th September, 1795, the Dutch Colony was forcibly
occupied by the English. By Art. VI of the Treaty of Amiens, of 25th March, 1802, it was
stipulated that the Port of the Cape of Good Hope should remain to the Batavian Republic, in full sovereignty, in the same manner as it did previous to the war; but it was evacuated in the following year.
