It sets forth that the South African Dutch do not recognise the cession made by the King of Holland in 1814; it does not admit that he had the right to "sell them like a flock of sheep." There have been Boers in rebellion since 1816.
One of these was a man named Bezuidenhout.

In resisting a Sheriff who tried to arrest him, he was shot.

His friends summoned to their aid a Kaffir Chief, named Gaika.

The English authorities condemned five of the insurgents to be hanged.

The rope broke.