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Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL BATHURST.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN, 26th July 1820.

MY LORD,-Referring to my Dispatch, marked separate, dated the 14th Instant; I have now the honour of acquainting your Lordship, that I have transmitted by H.M. Ship Minden, Captain. Moresby's Chart of Algoa Bay and adjacent Coast. I have &c. R. S. DONKIN.

(Signed)

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Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL BATHURST.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN, 26th July 1820.

MY LORD, I have the honor of reporting to your Lordship, that on the 29th of April last, when the accession of His Most Gracious Majesty King George the 4th was proclaimed here, I respited the Hottentot, Jantje Piet, under orders for execution on that day, for murder; as I did not think it decorous, that an execution should take place at the time of notifying so important an event to this Colony, I therefore gladly availed myself of the opportunity of illustrating the day of His Majesty's Accession by an act of clemency in His Royal Name; but, as my power extends only to the granting of a respite, I beg leave now, most dutifully and respectfully to solicit His Majesty's pardon for the criminal, and that his punishment may be commuted to transportation, for life, to New South Wales. I have &c.

(Signed) R. S. DONKIN.

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Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to
HENRY GOULBUrn, Esqre.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 26th July 1820.

SIR,-I have the honor to state, for the information of the Right Honorable Earl Bathurst, that Mr. Thomas Calton, who arrived in this Colony with a party of Settlers, for whom the requisite funds were supplied by the subscriptions of certain Noblemen and Gentlemen, in Nottinghamshire, and who, thro' the agency of the Trustees, the Reverend Thomas Becher and Edward Godfrey, Esqr., reserved a control over the lands to be granted, died at Algoa Bay on the 8th Instant; the party has elected Mr. Thos. Draper to succeed, to the situation of Head, subject, of course, to the approval or otherwise of the Trustees. I have &c.

Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL BATHURST. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN, 27th July 1820.

MY LORD,—Referring to my Dispatch No. 14 under date 25th April last, I have now the honor of acquainting Your Lordship, that the Duplicate of the Registry of Slaves within this Colony, called for by Your Lordship's Circular letter of the 15th September 1819, has been sent to England per H.M. Ship Minden, directed to the Colonial Agent Mr. Courtenay, with instructions to him to place the same in the hands of the Registrar of Colonial Slaves.

I have &c.

(Signed) R. S. DONKIN.

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Letter from MR. THOMAS WILLSON to the REVEREND
WILLIAM BOARDMAN.

PORT ELIZABETH, 30 July 1820.

DEAR SIR,-Having accompanied my party of Settlers to the place appointed by Government for my location, I feel that I have discharged an important and most arduous undertaking; by the plan of allotment which I left with you they will be enabled readily to enter upon their respective possessions, and they will now commence a life of activity which I sincerely hope will prove a source of happiness to themselves and families.

The first Instalment of Deposit Money I have paid to all such as were entitled, and the second and third Instalments shall be duly carried to their respective accounts; so that notwithstanding all that has occurred to agitate our feelings, we may at length, I trust, sit down in peace and goodwill towards each other.

I was early taught and impressed with the Christian example of rendering good for evil; and when I reflect in what manner I have been requited for my services, I trust that many will bear in remembrance my patience and forbearance. I feel from this a conscientious satisfaction: such as have murmured, and have sought to ruin my hopes in this Colony, and who doubtless have prejudiced my interests by their misrepresentations to the Governor, they will perhaps reap the fruit of their designs; but I will thank you to communicate to the whole party my sincere good wishes for their prosperity, and in taking my present leave of them I most heartily wish them success in all their undertakings.

It will remain now, with you, to exercise those exemplary duties which cannot fail to excite veneration for the Government, and harmony and peace amongst themselves; and I am sure I may congratulate the party in having united with them one so well constituted to administer to their comforts; hoping soon to be duly and quietly settled at Angloville, with my best regards for yourself and family, I am &c.

(Signed)

THOS. WILLSON.

P.S.-I will thank you to read this to the party. For those who may hereafter be disappointed in their agricultural pursuits,

I have in reserve a plan for uniting them in villages where they may pursue their respective trades with better success.

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Letter from LORD BATHURST to LORD CHARLES SOMERSET.

DOWNING STREET, LONDON, 31st July 1820.

MY LORD, The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having suggested the expediency of erecting an observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, which they consider would be highly conducive to the improvement of practical astronomy and Navigation, and concurring with their Lordships in the expediency of such an Establishment, I have to instruct your Lordship to allot for the purpose a suitable piece of Ground at the expence of the Colonial Government, and in such a situation as the astronomer whom their Lordships propose to send out may deem fit and eligible, and to afford every assistance in your power towards carrying the object into effect. I have &c.

Letter from MESSRS. WHITLEY & Co. to EARL BATHURST.

LIVERPOOL, July 31st 1820.

MY LORD,-Since the news of the safe arrival of the Emigrants who were sent out by us under the direction of our Mr. Hayhurst in the Ship John, Lieut. Church, in January last, we beg leave to acquaint your Lordship that numbers of families are making daily application to us for the purpose of emigrating in like manner, many of whom are friends and relatives of those already gone to the Cape.

We beg leave to submit the affair to your Lordship's kind consideration, and should feel extremely obliged would your Lordship so far condescend to say whether we may be permitted to take out from 40 to 50 families, the principal part of whom have been anxiously waiting an opportunity to follow their relatives and

friends. They are the more eager at present, understanding that your Lordship has been pleased to confer grants to a number of individuals who are now preparing for their embarkation from Glasgow.

We in their behalf humbly beg that your Lordship would also permit these to go out under our directions from this Port agreeably to the manner their friends were permitted in January last. Waiting your Lordship's reply, We remain &c.

Return of Lands occupied in Albany prior to the Colonial Secretary's Letter dated Bruintjes Hoogte 29th March 1817, as well as under the Instructions contained in said Letter afterwards.

Names of Settlers: G. S. Frazer, Deputy Landdrost, Cornelis van Schalkwyk, Nicolaas Niemand senior, Nicolaas Niemand junior, Pieter Retief, Gerrit Broekhuizen, Jan Potgieter, Jan Godlieb Welgemoed, Izaak Delport, Pieter Schalk van der Merwe, Jan Nel senior, Thomas Dreyer senior, Stephanus Nel, Joaquim Christiaan Esbach, Cornelis Meyer, Abraham Jacobus Esbach, Dirk van Rooyen, Lodewyk Zietzman, Jan Dreyer, Robert Cooper, Frederik Janse van Rensburg, and Cornelis van Rooyen. Grants confirmed.

To be resumed: P. R. Botha, Louis Ellert, Michiel Daniel Delport, Joel Daniel Smuts, Hans Janse van Rensburg, Marcus Jacobus Potgieter, Jan Lotter, Hendrik Woest, Barend Daniel Bouwer, Jerome Josias Bouwer, P. W. Bouwer, Ocker Goosen, Jacobus Potgieter, Louis Triechard, Gerrit Goosen, and Johannes Engelbrecht.