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various storehouses, offices, &c., which are required by the several Military Departments at the Head Quarters of the Frontier.

A list of the accommodation provided accompanies the Estimate, and the amount of the expense is £3,198 Sterling. I have &c. (Signed) W. C. HOLLOWAY,

Major commanding R. Engineers.

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Letter from MR. C. T. THORNHILL to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE.

SHIP Zoroaster, Downs, 5th February 1820.

SIR,-I beg leave to acquaint you that a man by name Puzey, his wife, and three children having left the ship at Deptford, I have procured another in the room of him by name John Stokes, and wife. The Agent Lieut. Williams of the Ship Belle Alliance, objects to allow him rations, because his name is not in the original list. I have to request Lord Bathurst will do me the favour to order the Agent to issue his rations with the rest of my settlers, otherwise the Captain means to send him on shore, which will be attended with great loss to me, and much distress to the man and his wife, who have been a great burden to the parish. As our detention here may admit of a letter from his Lordship, I would humbly request that favor, and have &c.

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Letter from MR. T. P. COURTENAY to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE. CANNON ROW, 7th February 1820.

SIR, I have received from Lord Charles Somerset the accompanying letter and enclosures directing me to forward to the Cape certain articles for the use of the Colony; and I have to request

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that you will move Lord Bathurst to cause me to be informed whether the expenses incurred in complying with this requisition will be allowed in the account which according to your letter of the 11th of May last, I am to render to the Commissioners of Colonial Audit.

In consequence of the arrangement to which your last mentioned letter refers, I think it necessary to make this previous application to Lord Bathurst, even upon requisitions from the Cape Government of small extent, a compliance wherewith appears to be the ordinary course of my duty as its Agent; but I am desirous of being informed whether it is Lord Bathurst's intention that I should apply for a particular sanction in each case; or whether I may presume that the expence of complying with requisitions of this description will be allowed to the Colonial Government in like manner with those ordinary Military payments which were the subject of your letter of the 20th of August 1818. I have &c. TH. PER. COURTENAY.

(Signed)

Enclosure A in the above.]

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 10th November 1819.

SIR,-I request you will have the goodness to purchase on account of the Colonial Government, for the use of the Printing Department at this place, four hundred reams of Printing Demy (viz. 200 Reams of each as per accompanying samples) together with the printing articles specified in the enclosed copy of a letter from Mr. Ross, and cause the same to be directed to the Colonial Secretary, Cape of Good Hope, and transmitted hither by the earliest opportunity. I have &c.

(Signed)

CHARLES HENRY SOMERSET.

[Enclosure B in the above.]

PRINTING DEPARTMENT, 8th November 1819.

SIR, I beg leave to report to you that the printing paper, of a large dimension, which was ordered out and received from England, under the idea of answering the new improved presses written for,

has now been commenced upon. It will consequently be adviseable to have another supply ordered, of two hundred reams of each of the accompanying samples of Printing Demy, together with the undermentioned articles of printing, by the first vessel bound from England to this Settlement. Besides the two casks of Printing ink, 12 dozen each, already ordered,

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Letter from MR. JOHN STANLEY to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE.

FUNCHAL, February 7th 1820.

SIR,-I beg leave to inform you the John arrived here on the 2nd and the Stentor yesterday, after a stormy and tedious passage, during which Lt. Church and the officers of the ship John have paid every attention to our health and comfort; indeed Lt. Church is a man in ten thousand, his kindness and watchful attentions to every person on board is beyond all praise, he has behaved like a father to us all, which if continued during the voyage must infallibly make our long voyage to the Cape a very pleasant one.

The government has laid us under everlasting obligations in

fitting out the ships in so superior a manner, every necessary provision is made that can be expected at sea, and the people have ample provisions, grog, &c., that ever their hearts can wish for, and a very great proportion are infinitely better provided for on board a ship than they could possibly expect in their late homes of Old England.

As regards myself and party I return my sincere thanks, as the individuals going with me will have an opportunity of doing well if they conduct themselves with moderation and propriety.

Staying here a few days cannot fail to be productive of great good, at all events it has proved so to Mrs. Stanley and myself, who have never before been more at sea than across the Mersey at Liverpool.

With many thanks for past favours permit me &c.

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To the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of this Colony.

The British Government having liberally given its sanction, and afforded its protection, to the free exercise of all the Rites of the Catholic Religion, in this Country, Notice is hereby given, that a Store in the Buitenkant, opposite the Barracks, will be opened as a Chapel, on Sunday the 13th instant, and Divine Service will be there performed on all Sundays and Holidays, at eleven o'Clock.

Cape Town, 10th February, 1820.

(Signed)

P. SCULLY, Missionary,

F. DE LETTRE, Commissary of the Church.

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Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL. BATHURST. GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 11th February 1820.

MY LORD,-In reply to your Lordship's dispatch No. 13, addressed to His Excellency General Lord Charles Somerset, transmitting a Copy of a Resolution of the House of Commons: which passed during the last Session of Parliament, and in virtue of which an address was presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, soliciting Returns of the Revenue and Expenditure: of this Settlement, with other information as therein expressed, I have now the honour to transmit to your Lordship a Return of the Civil Officers of this Government, whose Salary and Emoluments exceed £150 a year, made out according to the printed forms transmitted by your Lordship, together with Returns of the Total Amount of the Revenue of the Cape of Good Hope for 1817 and 1818 and the total amount of Expenditure for the same periods, so far in each as the Civil Government is concerned. The Military Returns will be furnished to your Lordship separately.

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Letter from MR. BENJAMIN MOODIE to LIEUTENANT
COLONEL BIRD.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, February 11th 1820.

SIR, I have the honour to submit, through your medium, to His Excellency the Governor's consideration the following circumstances, trusting that your knowledge of them will enable you to elucidate the subject, and satisfied that His Excellency will give it the attention he may deem it to merit.

At the period when the Emigration under my direction left England, His Majesty's Ministers had not decided on giving any

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