Identifier: ThirdSalisburyAdministration1895-1900 (find matches)
Title: Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Whates, Harry Richard
Subjects: Robert Cecil-marquess of Salisbury Great Britain-History-Victoria,1837-1901
Publisher: Westminster,Vacher

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thcoming to show that he believed Mr. Chamberlainhad foreknowledge of the conspiracy and the invasion and wasmerely a tool of the Rhodes-Beit combination—his place was inPretoria. The burghers needed him. Affairs were still dangerouslyunsettled. There was no one he could safely leave in control ofthe Republic. Mr. Chamberlains scheme for a settlement of theRand difficulty by the creation of an autonomous but tribute-payingdistrict fell stillborn. Mr. Kruger would not reply to it becauseof its premature publication; and he eventually declined to cometo England to talk about it or about anything else. Not even atender inquiry by Mr. Chamberlain concerning the health ofMrs. Kruger mollified the offended President. A deadlock hadbeen produced, the true cause of which was not in the prematuredisclosure of Mr. Chamberlains proposals of reform but in theintense suspicion that had been engendered in the Boer mind bythe events of the Raid and the supposed complicity of the ColonialSecretary.
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288 THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. In the meantime Mr. Ehodes had come to England to face themusic and Dr. Jameson and his officers were brought to Londonunder arrest. Mr. Ehodes had resigned the Premiership of CapeColony and it was expected that he would make to the CharteredCompany a speech which would contain a defence of his proceedings.He stayed in London only four days, having interviews with Mr.Chamberlain and his co-directors, and then, without breaking silence,hurried back to South Africa, where the Matabele had risen inconsequence of the withdrawal of the Chartered Companys forces forthe purposes of .the Raid. He was deprived of the means of com-mitting further aggression upon the Transvaal by the Crown takingover the military bodies in the service of the Company and resumingpossession of the Bechuanaland border. The arrival of Dr. Jamesonand his officers was followed by a preliminary hearing of thecharges against them under the Foreign Enlistment Act. Committalfollowed in the cas

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