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Letter from REAR ADMIRAL LAMBERT to J. W. CROKER, ESQRE.

Vigo AT SEA,

LAT. 33° 45' S., LONG. 15° 38′ E., 6th July 1820.

SIR, I have the honor to acquaint you for the information of their Lordships that I left Simon's Bay on the 3rd Instant, and am now on my way to St. Helena to relieve Rear Admiral Plampin.

In my letter No. 13 by the Brilliant Transport, I reported my arrival at the Cape of Good Hope on the 16th June. During my stay I used every exertion for carrying into effect the plan recommended by the Victualling Board for stall-feeding the cattle at Simon's Town previously to their being shipped for St. Helena, and the arrangements were in a state of forwardness when I came away.

His Majesty's Ship Tees was struck by lightning on her passage to the Cape, and obliged to take in a new foremast; having been refitted, she sailed on the 3rd Inst. for the Isle of France with orders to remain there until relieved.

I have given her Captain instructions, agreeably to those of Their Lordships to me, for his guidance in that command; and have further ordered him, should he fall in with His Majesty's Sloop Leveret, (that vessel having sailed for the Mauritius the day before I arrived) to take her commander under his orders for one month, and then send her to join me at St. Helena, calling at the Cape to complete her provisions and stores. Should she return to the Cape before the 10th August without having fallen in with the Tees, I have desired that she shall proceed again to the Isle of France, be employed there one month, and then come to me at St. Helena as before directed.

This measure I have judged necessary from the Official Reports at the Cape of Good Hope of the agitated state of the Island.

His Majesty's Sloop Heron is left with orders to follow me to St. Helena on the arrival of His Majesty's Ship Menai from Algoa Bay; which ship I have ordered round to Simon's Bay, it seeming to me necessary to have a vessel constantly there for the better carrying on His Majesty's Service. I have &c.

(Signed) ROBT. LAMBERT, Rear Admiral Commander in Chief.

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Letter from CAPTAIN J. GRANT to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE. No. 22 UPPER LISSON STREET,

PADDINGTON, 6th July 1820.

SIR,-I find I have been made the dupe of a party who induced me to enter with them in the undertaking of collecting emigrants for the Cape from the Highlands.

The symptoms of uneasiness manifested by the people in being obliged to leave their Farms, the odiums cast on the proprietors in the Public Prints, added to the general disturbed state of the country induced the greatest number of the Heritors to renew the leases of those who were likely to make the most useful part of those forming a new settlement, the consequence has been that I have been deserted and the whole expense of the undertaking has fallen on me, not suspecting the purity of intention of those connected with me I did not use the precaution of binding them in writing and they now refuse to be at any part of the charge incurred, by which I find myself under the necessity of selling my Commission, and I am at a loss to know what to do to support a wife and family of seven children. I am therefore induced to apply to you to solicit some small situation in one of our Colonies, I do not by any means make this request from any supposed claims on the Colonial Office, but trust your goodness will assist an old officer (who has spent the prime of his life in the service of his Country) in rearing and providing for a numerous young family, expecting your favourable answer, I have &c.

Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to LORD CHARLES

SOMERSET.

DOWNING STREET, 11th July 1820.

MY LORD, I do myself the honour of acquainting Your Lordship by the direction of Earl Bathurst that a Copy of your

Communication of the 13th of June on the subject of arming the whole of the mounted Men of the Cape Corps with double barrelled Carbines having been submitted for the Consideration of the Master General and Board of Ordnance, they have acquainted Earl Bathurst in reply that there are no double Carbines in Store and they do not conceive it would be proper to incur the Expence of making a new arm of this description. I have &c.

Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to LORD CHARLES SOMERSET.

DOWNING STREET, 11th July 1820. MY LORD, I have received the directions of Earl Bathurst to refer to your Lordship the accompanying Copy of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Hamilton, Secretary to the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, suggesting the Propriety of erecting a suitable English Church at Cape Town: and I have the honour to request that your Lordship would be pleased to favour me with any Information in your power as to the Building in which Divine Service according to the Doctrines of the Church of England is now celebrated, and with your opinion as to the necessity of erecting a new one at the Cape. I have &c.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 12th of July 1820.

Present,

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by An Act, passed in the first year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled "An Act to continue until the fifth day

of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, An Act of the fifty-seventh year of His late Majesty for regulating the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope, and for regulating the trade of the Island of Mauritius," His Majesty is authorised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, by any Order or Orders to be issued from time to time, to give such directions, and to make such regulations touching the trade and commerce to and from the Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, and the territories and dependencies thereof, as to His Majesty in Council shall appear most expedient and salutary, anything contained in an Act, passed in the twelfth year of the reign of His Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled "An Act for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation;" or in an Act, passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of His Majesty King William the Third, intituled "An Act for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in the plantation trade," or any other Act or Acts of Parliament now in force relating to His Majesty's colonies and plantations, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament, law, usage, or custom to the contrary, in anywise notwithstanding; His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of this present Order, British vessels arriving at any port of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or of the territories and dependencies thereof, from any country in amity with His Majesty, laden with any articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of such country (excepting all articles composed of cotton, iron, steel, or wool of foreign manufacture,) shall be permitted to enter and land their cargoes, and dispose of the same in the said ports, subject to such duties as may be there payable thereon:

And it is further ordered that British vessels arriving as aforesaid shall be permitted to export to any such foreign country in amity with His Majesty, cargoes consisting of any articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or of the Territories and dependencies thereof, or of any other articles which shall have been legally imported there, on payment of such duties as may be payable thereon:

And it is hereby further ordered, that vessels belonging to the subjects of any foreign state in amity with His Majesty, which foreign state shall allow British vessels to carry on trade as afore

said between the ports of such state and the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or the territories and dependencies thereof, shall be permitted, in like manner, to import into the ports of the said settlements, or of the territories and dependencies thereof, from any port of the state to which such vessel shall belong, any articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of such foreign state (excepting all articles composed of cotton, iron, steel, or wool, of foreign manufacture), and to dispose of the same in the ports of the said settlement, or of the territories and dependencies thereof, on payment of the same duties as shall be payable on the like articles when imported from such foreign state in British vessels; provided, however, that if higher duties are charged on the export of such goods from any such foreign state to the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or the territories and dependencies thereof, in British vessels, than are charged on the export of similar articles to the said settlement, or the territories and dependencies thereof, in ships of such foreign state, a countervailing duty, of equal amount, shall be charged on the said articles when imported into the said settlement, or the territories and dependencies thereof, in vessels of such foreign state, over and above the duties payable on the like articles when imported from such state in British vessels:

And it is hereby further ordered, that every such foreign vessel shall be permitted to export a cargo consisting of any articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or of the territories and dependencies thereof, or of any other articles which shall have been legally imported there, on payment of a duty of eight per cent. ad valorem over and above the duties charged on the like goods when exported from the said settlement, or the territories and dependencies thereof, to such foreign state in a British vessel; provided, however, that in cases where satisfactory proof shall be given, that the said articles, when imported into such foreign state from the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or the territories and dependencies thereof, in British vessels, are charged with no higher duties than are charged on the like articles when imported in vessels of such foreign state, and that such articles, when imported in British vessels, are entitled to the same privileges and advantages with respect to warehousing and internal consumption, or otherwise, as when imported in vessels of such state, then and in such case no higher duties shall be charged on the export of such articles from the