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RECORDS OF THE CAPE COLONY.

[Original.]

Letter from MR. RICHARD WATSON to EARL BATHURST.

WESLEYAN MISSION House, 77 Hatton Garden,

January 20th 1820.

MY LORD,-I am directed by the Committee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, to represent to Your Lordship, that they are about to send out an additional married Missionary among the Little Namacqua Hottentots, on the North West border of the Cape Colony, where three of their Missionaries under the sanction and encouragement of Lord Charles Somerset have been for some time settled, and have introduced agriculture and the useful arts among the people of those tribes.

The Committee had prepared to send out the new Missionary to the Namacquas, and his wife (Mr. and Mrs. Kay,) by a private vessel; but understanding that a company of the settlers, chiefly members of the Methodist Society, are going out in the Brilliant, Transport, who will have no minister among them during their voyage (their own Minister being on board the Aurora,) they take the liberty to solicit from Your Lordship that Mr. and Mrs. Kay may be allowed to proceed to the Cape in the Brilliant, in order that the Settlers who are going out in this vessel, may not be without a person regularly to perform divine service during the voyage. The Committee being anxious that as these persons are members of the same religious body with themselves, and many of them young persons, that they should be kept under the influence of religious sentiments, and go with an unspotted character into the new Colony. I have &c.

XIII.

(Signed)

RICHARD WATSON, Secretary.

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