Philip had brought a lion's skin from the interior, which he hoped Buxton would accept. He trusts Buxton had received the papers he had sent him from time to time about the Boers beyond the Colony and mentions an extract from one of Stockenstrom's letters, which he was sending about the feeling in Griqualand (South Africa). He reports that Captain Hare had acted very well but that a more permanent arrangement was necessary now for their northern frontier to Port Natal (Durban), and this could only be achieved by the home government. He recalls the three campaigns in which Buxton had formerly assisted him: the emancipation of the Khoekhoe, the prevention of the Vagrancy Acts, and the preservation of the Xhosa people. He now asks for his help to preserve the people living between the Orange River and the Portuguese territories, and prays that the fate experienced by the indigenous peoples in Newfoundland and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) will not be theirs; so far this had, he was thankful to say, been prevented. He claims that had Buxton travelled with him recently around the churches in South Africa, he would have thanked God that he had been involved in working for them. He cites the Commercial Advertiser of 4 Feb as providing an example of what the Boers had been doing on a large scale in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and the adjoining country for years and of what could be enacted from them in the future if they were not checked. He claims that the majority were bent on the destruction of the old and the slavery of the young, though there were a few good men among them. Their hatred of the English Government was founded on the restraints imposed on them by it and they would have hated equally a Dutch Government doing the same thing. He ends with messages to Lady Buxton and the family. (Copy.)