[Original.] Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL BATHURST. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 30th June 1820. MY LORD, I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship that I have granted leave of absence, for the term of six months from the period of his embarkation from hence, to the Reverend George Thom, Minister at the Sub-Drostdy Caledon, to return to Europe on his private affairs. I have directed Mr. Thom to report himself to your Lordship on his arrival in England, and to apply to you for any further extension of leave, and I have furnished him with the Certificate required by Your Lordship's Dispatch No. 9, dated 21st April, 1818. I have &c. (Signed) R. S. DONKIN. [Original.] Letter from MR. T. P. COURTENAY to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE. CANNON ROW, 30th June 1820. SIR, I have the honor to inform you that I have received an urgent requisition from Sir Rufane Donkin, acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, dated 14th April last, for Printing Materials required for the use of the Government Printing Office at the Cape, as specified in the accompanying list: And I have to request that you will move Lord Bathurst to authorize me to provide and send out these articles. I have at the same time received a Bill upon the Treasury for £5,000 to enable me to defray the present and other Expenses belonging to the Colony. I have &c. (Signed) TH. PER. COURTENAY, Colonial Agent for the Cape of Good Hope. [Enclosure.] List of Printing Materials required for the use of the 2000 lbs. Long Primer, No. 6, with a proportion of Signs, Superiors, 2 line Letters, open Letters, half fractions, space Rules, and a double proportion of the Letters, d, k, n, r, v, y, and z. 1000 lbs. Brevier, No. 4, with a proportion as above. 500 lbs. English, No. 7, as above. 500 lbs. Double Pica, No. 3, as above. 500 lbs. Great Primer, No. 3, as above. 2 Stanhope Presses with everything complete. 3000 Ball Nails. 6 Brass Column Galleys. 12 Mallets. 12 Mahogany Plainers. 150 Shooting Sticks. 10 dozen foot and side Sticks. 12 pr. Letter Cases. 1 cask Pot Ash (fine American). [Original.] Letter from MR. ANTHONY HAMILTON to EARL BATHURST. ST. MARTIN'S LIBRARY, June 30, 1820. MY LORD,-I have the honor to transmit to your Lordship the following resolution of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: That a respectful application be made to Earl Bathurst requesting his Lordship would be pleased to recommend to His Excellency the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, to exert his influence in procuring the erection of a suitable English Church in Cape Town, where at present there is no ecclesiastical building appropriated to the use of the English residents, and in aid of which object the Society have granted the sum of £500. That his Lordship would be pleased also to recommend to the patronage of His Excellency and the local authorities in that town the Rev. William Wright, B.A. of Trinity College Dublin, who has lately been adopted as a Missionary for the religious instruction of the Natives and Negroes in that town. I have &c. (Signed) ANTHONY HAMILTON, Secretary. [Copy.] Letter from the LANDDROST OF UITENHAGE to UITENHAGE, 1st July 1820. MY DEAR SIR,-Herewith another Memorandum for you when at Bathurst, about Lieut. Biddulph's and Mr. Austin's lands. Captain Somerset has just informed me that Nicolaas Niemand, his brother Dirk Niemand, and P. van der Westhuizen will be waiting at N. Niemand's, where I hope you will find them and use them as guides. Don't forget to send the waggons which have taken on Mr. Wait's and Mr. Barker's parties to Theunis Botha's place, to fetch away Sephton's people. Captain Trappes will of course have notified Mr. Sephton that he was to remove. In case he may not have done so I enclose you a letter to Mr. Sephton to that effect, which send by either Kok or Niekerk, filling in the name of the person you send. I remain &c. P.S.-I enclose two letters for Mr. Sephton, as it may require two sets of waggons to take up his party. [Original.] Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to HENRY CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 6th July 1820. SIR, I have the honor to transmit to you, for the purpose of being submitted to the Right Honorable the Earl Bathurst, the enclosed Copy of a Memorial, received from George Martinson, one of the Settlers lately arrived from England, and to express a hope that some means may be found for complying with the prayer of the Memorialist. I have &c. To His Excellency Major General Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin, K.C.B., Acting Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Commander in Chief, &c., &c., &c. The Memorial of George Martinson Humbly Sheweth, That Memorialist came to this Colony as a Settler under the direction of Mr. Crause, that in November last Memorialist went on board the Nautilus Transport to provide for and make arrangements for the comfort of his Family previous to their Embarkation. The vessel dropt down the River, and proceeding to Sea, got on the Goodwin Sands, that on the Ship's righting she finally proceeded to sea without stopping either at the Downs or at Portsmouth, at one of which places Memorialist had been assured by Mr. Walton, the Master, the Ship would touch, and remain at least for a week, and where Memorialist had determined to embark his Family. Memorialist therefore humbly hopes your Excellency will be pleased to forward this or what other statement Your Excellency may judge requisite, on an occasion of such a nature, to his Lordship The Earl of Bathurst, Colonial Secretary, recommending memorialist's case, and memorialist thereby hopes again soon to feel the enjoyments of life so much to be desired, (that of again XIII. N having his family with him) and trusts that his wife and family who were so unfortunately left in England will be sent to this Country. Any information or direction to his wife how to act will be gratefully received by being addressed for Sarah Martinson to the care of T. Pemberton, Foreign Post Office, or to R. Callow, 12 Archer's Street, Haymarket. And Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray. SPANISH REED, 5 June 1820. (Signed) GEORGE MARTINSON. [Original.] Letter from MR. T. P. COURTENAY to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE. CANNON ROW, July 6th 1820. SIR,-In conformity with the opinion of Earl Bathurst communicated in your letter of the 11th of May 1819, I have forwarded to the Treasury, for reference to the Auditors of Colonial Accounts, my account as Agent to the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, for the year 1819, including as well the payments made by me from funds supplied to me by the Governor, and in consequence of directions received from him, as those which I have made by Lord Bathurst's authority out of monies received from the Treasury in England. I have hence necessarily inserted some charges which though defrayed by me in pursuance of commands which it was my duty to obey, have not received the sanction of the Secretary of State, which sanction the Auditors now require me to produce. Of these charges I therefore enclose a statement, in the hope that Lord Bathurst will give the necessary authority to the Auditors for allowing them in my accounts, provided that they shall appear to have been properly made by me in the performance of my official duty. I have &c. (Signed) TH. PER. COURTENAY. |