With some difficulty, it is reported, a contingent of the
Ger- man Legion, their wives and families, has been shipped off to the Cape of Good Hope. Another contingent is to follow ; the men of the second body being at present dispersed in various parts of Germany in search of wives. The cost, on a moderate estimate, is stated at 800,0001. That will be the bill for establishing a new military frontier, which may be christened " Grey's Folly." During their stay in England, the men have been mutinous, riotous, and quarrelsome, and have made a British public familiar with their intemperance, their passions, and their knives. Whether they will defend the British settlers from the Caffre may be doubted ; who will defend the British settlers from the German Legionaries we are not told. We can imagine only one population which would be more dangerous to the Cape of Good Hope—a settlement of those convicts whom the Cape colonists refused to admit, on pain of rebellion. Many members of a. force indiscriminately recruited are likely to prove ticket-of-leave men without the ticket. • It will not be a settlement of convicts ; we may call it a settlement of unconvicts.
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