[Office Copy.] Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to MAJOR-GENERAL SIR RUFANE DONKIN. Messrs. P. Lucas Fredk. Lucas DOWNING STREET, 17th June 1820. SIR,With reference to the Dispatch addressed to Lord Charles Somerset on the 4th of January stating that Major General Campbell had received the permission of Government to proceed to the Cape with one hundred Persons, I have received the directions of Earl Bathurst to acquaint you that in addition to the nine Persons therein mentioned whom the M. General proposed to send out in the first instance to the Colony, the persons named in the Margin, belonging to the same party, have embarked for that Settlement. I have &c. H. Campbell Ely Mills W. Fisher. (Signed) HENRY GOULBURN. [Office Copy.] Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to LORD DOWNING STREET, 21st June 1820. MY LORD, I have received the directions of Earl Bathurst to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's Letter of the 20th Ultimo in favour of Mrs. Alexander, Widow of William Alexander, Esq., late Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, and I do myself the hononr to acquaint your Lordship that although Lord Bathurst considers it highly objectionable to establish a Precedent which may lead to a general Expectation on the part of the Civil Servants at the Cape that their Widows are to receive Pensions after their Death, yet in consideration of Mr. Alexander having been for 10 years Secretary of the Colony, Lord Bathurst is prepared so far to acquiesce in your Lordship's recommendation as to authorize Mrs. Alexander's receiving from the Colony a Pension at the rate of £300 per Annum to commence from the date of Mr. Alexander's Death. I have &c. (Signed) HENRY GOULBURN. [Original.] Letter from LIEUTENANT COLONEL BIRD to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 21st June 1820. SIR,-In the absence of Major General Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin, who is on the Frontier for the purpose of superintending the location of the Settlers, I beg leave to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Bathurst, that he has granted leave of absence for the term of six months from the period of his embarkation from hence, to Charles Blair, Esq., Collector of Customs and Port Captain, to return to Europe on his private affairs. Mr. Blair has been directed to report himself to His Lordship on his arrival in England, and to apply to him for any further extension of leave, and I have furnished him with the Certificate required by his Lordship's dispatch No. 9, dated the 21st April 1818. I have &c. Letter from MR. W. PARKER to the DEPUTY LANDDROST OF CLANWILLIAM. KLEINE VALLEY, 22nd June 1820. SIR,-I am happy at being able to inclose to you a copy of my letter to Colonel Bird of the 22nd Ulto., which I, fortunately before the original was forwarded, showed to Mr. Stoll. I am so satisfied at the propriety of my conduct respecting the information you were so kind as to give me, which I had no reason to think was confidential, that when His Excellency arrives here I shall fully explain to him what has passed on this occasion. I take this opportunity to request that you will inform me if you have got instructions to put me in possession of the lands intended for the occupation of my Settlers. If so, may I request that you will be pleased to do so as soon as possible. I have &c. (Signed) WILLIAM PARKER. [Copy.] Letter from the DEPUTY LANDDROST OF CLANWILLIAM to CLANWILLIAM, 22nd June 1820. SIR,-In answer to your letter of this morning I am to inform you that it is the intention of His Excellency the Acting Governor to locate your Party at the Kleine Valley with as much land as will be sufficient to the amount of the quantity of acres allotted to you. The Kleine Valley having been surveyed it proved not to be large enough, containing no more together with a small spot named the Varkensfontein, but 3,200 acres of which you will be at liberty to take possession of whenever it will be convenient to you. I shall request Mr. Tulleken the Land Surveyor to-morrow to point out to you the boundaries of the said Land, and think it would be desirable for you to content yourself for the present until His Excellency the Acting Governor shall have arrived. I have &c. O. M. BERGH. (Signed) Papers in the case of Captain Andries Stockenstrom versus Dr. Robert Knox and Officers of the Cape Corps in 1820. These papers are very voluminous, but as they relate only to a quarrel between military officers on a subject of no public interest, I do not think it necessary to give more than the finding of the Court of Enquiry, which assembled at Grahamstown by order of Lieutenant Colonel Willshire, commanding the Troops on the Frontier, and closed its sittings on the 23rd of June 1820.G. M. T. "The Court previous to giving their opinion think it necessary to state that they conducted their proceedings in the early part with closed doors, as in that state of the business it was impossible to say who might be called in as evidence, the whole officers of the Garrison from the publicity of the reports in question being all likely to be brought before it as witnesses. "The Court having in obedience to the Order received from the Lieut. Colonel commanding on the Frontier patiently examined and investigated every document and paper relative to the affair between Captain Stockenstrom and the Officers of the Cape Corps, and having minutely traced as far as lay in their power the origin of the reports calumniously propagated to the prejudice of Captain Stockenstrom's character, the Court from all that has come before them do most unequivocally give it as their opinion that Captain Stockenstrom's conduct appears to them to be most highly creditable to him as an Officer and a Gentleman, and that he has conducted himself through a most painful period of calumny and persecution with feelings of the highest sense of honor and propriety. "The Court cannot help observing the backwardness and difficulty with which the Officers of the Cape Corps at first answered the questions of the Court, which by coming to the point at once would have tended to have shortened these proceedings, but the manner in which they at last came forward thro' their Commanding Officer Captain Somerset merits the thanks of the Court and it is hoped the approbation of the Commandant on the Frontier. "With regard to Dr. Knox the Court look upon his conduct in such a light, that they hope they may be excused from giving an opinion, and refer the Commandant to the above proceedings relative to the calumnies issuing from him. (Signed) "JOHN J. JACKSON, Major 72nd Regiment, [Office Copy.] Letter from LORD BATHURST to MAJOR GENERAL SIR RUFANE DONKIN. DOWNING STREET, 24th June 1820. SIR,-As it is probable that the system lately adopted by Government for the Colonization of the Cape of Good Hope will carry great numbers of British Settlers to that Country, it is desirable that permanent means of religious Worship and Instruction should be secured as well as to the original Settlers and their Descendants as to the Natives who will probably resort to the new Settlement. To attain so desirable an object the "Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" have signified to the Government their readiness to contribute their assistance and co-operation as far as the funds of the Society will allow, by providing a regular supply of Ministers and Schoolmasters, and have suggested as a means of supporting such an Establishment that the newly inhabited Districts should be divided into Parishes of moderate size, and that certain proportions of Land should be set apart in each for the maintenance of the Resident Clergy. His Majesty's Government fully concurring in the view which the Society have taken of the subject, I have conformably to their Suggestions to instruct you to retain in the Neighbourhood of every Grant, a certain portion of land, not less than of the Grants made, for the future support of a Protestant Clergy, and to reserve it in such situations as may afford a probability of its encreasing in value in proportion to the Growth and prosperity of the Colony. I have &c. (Signed) BATHURST. [Original.] Letter from LORD CHARLES SOMERSET to T. P. COURTENAY, ESQRE. NORTH ROW, PARK LANE, June 24th 1820. SIR,-Several Officers having been appointed to the Cape Corps who I have reason to suppose have no intention of joining the Corps, but who will I doubt not apply to you for their Pay, I have to inform you that as it has been considered essentially necessary for the well-doing of the Corps to establish a respectable Regimental Mess (the first formation of which is unavoidably expensive) there is a subscription due towards the Mess Fund from each Officer on his first Appointment to the Corps as follows: |