this place by that time, and when I shall probably be enabled to form a tolerable judgment as to the numbers of Settlers to be expected in all.

I must not omit mentioning to your Lordship that Captain Moresby of H. M. Ship Menai has in the handsomest manner offered to accompany these Settlers to Algoa Bay, there to superintend their landing, and to employ his carpenters and people generally in the construction of Sheds and other Cover for their inmediate accommodation, and to facilitate the landing of stores and other matters. I have expressed my thanks to Captain Moresby and accepted his offer. I have, &c.

P. S. While closing this dispatch, the Northampton with stores for the Settlers has arrived, but most unfortunatly has had the Small Pox on board, of which five persons have died. This will probably render a strict quarantine at this place necessary, but I hope to be able to send her on immediately to Algoa Bay, and that no evil may arise from landing the Stores and Settlers there, which shall be done under due precaution.

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Letter from MR. NEIL MACNIELL to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE. GLASGOW, March 27th 1820.

SIR, I now have the honor of transmitting you the lists of the emigrants proposing to accompany me to the Cape of Good Hope, being in all sixty eight families including my own, the whole number being two hundred and sixteen persons. I have to ask Earl Bathurst's indulgence in not forwarding those documents sooner, as it is no easy matter to fix the minds of individuals upon so weighty a consideration as that of emigrating to such a distance; the number is now about what I formerly mentioned, and I have every hope that the Government will not be disappointed in the people and that when their deposits may be required the money will be immediately paid. I formerly stated to you the propriety of the embarkation taking place early in the

summer, Your last letters to me have suggested that this period of the year may be unfavourable, and I having put them under the consideration of the settlers they unanimously wish to get to the Colony as soon as possible. I mentioned the distress which many of the intended colonists would suffer from quitting their possessions at the ensuing term, and they are now in consequence of your last letter disposing of their effects, have relinquished their possessions and are ready to proceed when the Government are pleased to signify the time and place of embarkation. I annex a certificate from the Lord Provost of this City stating the consent of the Settlers in this part, as also a Medical certificate. You will observe there are several persons from the Highlands included in the lists. It is not in my power until I go there to send the necessary documents regarding them, but I intend to proceed immediately thither and the documents will be forwarded without delay. I hope Earl Bathurst will excuse me in not conforming to the suggestions contained in your two last letters, but the settlers having maturely considered their difficulties in this country and the Settlers who may already be in the Colony, are bent upon proceeding as early as possible.

May I therefore request to be informed in course when the Government will be pleased to appoint a ship from the Clyde. And allow me to suggest that the Government can be accommodated with a transport in the Clyde.

I hope to hear from you in course as I shall await your answer in Glasgow. I have, &c.

P. S. I trust I may be excused in repeating the anxious wish of the emigrants to embark early in May. N. McN.

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Letter from LORD BATHURST to MAJOR GENERAL

SIR R. S. DONKIN.

LONDON, 28th March 1820.

SIR, I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 12th January last, stating that you have received the charge of the

Government of the Cape of Good Hope, on the embarkation of Lord Charles Somerset for this Country; and I take this early opportunity of acquainting you that you cannot more satisfactorily execute the Trust which His Majesty has been pleased to confide to you than by continuing to administer the Government of the Colony upon the principles upon which it has been conducted by Lord Charles Somerset. I have, &c.

Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL Bathurst.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

CAPE TOWN, March 28th 1820.

MY LORD,—Since closing the accompanying Dispatch, I have received such a report from the Health Officer, relative to the Northampton, as has enabled me to relax the Quarantine, and to permit the heads of parties, the Captain and a few other persons, to land here, under certain precautions, and I am in expectation that the Northampton will be able to proceed immediately to Algoa Bay with her Stores, and land them and the Settlers there, without danger of infection to this Colony.

Letter from JOHN BARROW, ESQRE., to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, 30th March 1820.

SIR, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request you will acquaint Earl Bathurst that Captain Plumridge of His Majesty's Sloop Sappho having drawn a Bill for £350 upon the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, on account of the passage granted in that vessel to Lord Charles

Somerset from the Cape of Good Hope to England, under an order given to the Captain by Rear Admiral Plampin, my Lords have directed that this Bill should be paid, in order to prevent the inconvenience to public credit of protesting an officer's bill; but that it has been charged to Admiral Plampin, out of whose pay it will be repaid to the public.

As it appears, however, by the correspondence which has passed on the subject, that the Admiral exceeded his authority in granting this passage, and thus subjected himself to this expence, entirely at the urgent request of Lord Charles Somerset, my Lords think it right to suggest whether Earl Bathurst will not take steps with this officer to repay the sum to the Treasurer of the Navy, in order to relieve the Admiral from this private expence which has fallen upon him entirely on account of his wish to oblige Lord Charles. I am, &c.

Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL BATHURST.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 31st March 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 Mr. George Ross, Superintendant of the Printing Department, to return to Europe on his private affairs.

I have directed Mr. Ross 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.

XIII.

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Return of Troops on the Frontier on the 1st of April 1820.

Letter from the MILITARY SECRETARY to the ASSISTANT
COMMISSARY GENERAL.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 2nd April 1820. SIR, I am directed by His Excellency the Commander of the Forces to acquaint you that in pursuance of Instructions from His Majesty's Government it will become necessary for you to take charge of and superintend various details connected with the Establishment of the New Settlers now arriving from England.

You have already received orders to establish a Depôt of Sixty thousand Rations at Algoa Bay to be sold to the Settlers at prime cost, should they apply for them. His Excellency directs that you will lose no time in adding Forty thousand Rations more to the above Depôt, making in all One hundred Thousand Rations. And these are meant to meet the immediate wants of the Settlers on