incontrovertible facts, then Your Memorialist presumes to hope that Your Royal Highness's just and honorable feelings will admit the Rigor of his sufferings to have greatly exceeded the Extent of his alleged Offence, and, in this Conviction, will be pleased to direct such reparation to be made to Your Memorialist as may be deem'd equitable by that noble and beneficent Heart which has never, in any Instance, failed to remember and exemplify "That earthly Pow'r does then seem most divine, when Mercy seasons Justice!" And your Royal Highness's faithful and devoted Memorialist, as in duty and Gratitude bound, will ever pray. (Signed) LAURENCE HALLORAN. 28th August, 1811. Mr. Browne's Chambers, No. 2 Bernard's Inn. [Copy.] Proclamation by HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR JOHN FRANCIS CRADOCK, Knight of the Most Honorable Orders of the Bath and Crescent, Colonel of His Majesty's 43rd Regiment of Foot, Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Castle, Town, and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and of the Territories and Dependencies thereof, and Ordinary and Vice Admiral of the same, Commander of the Forces, &c., &c. Whereas His Majesty, by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, the 9th day of April, 1811, has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint me Governor of this Settlement, with the Territories and Dependencies thereof; and having this day taken and subscribed the Oaths accordingly,-Notice is hereby given to all officers, Civil and Military, and all Persons and Inhabitants whatsoever are hereby called upon, from the date of these presents, to obey all Orders and Commands that may from time to time be issued by me. Given under my Hand and Seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this 6th day of September 1811. VIII. (Signed) J. F. CRADOCK. [Original.] Letter from the EARL OF CALEDON to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. MILFORD HAVEN, September 11th 1811. MY LORD,-Agreeable to the permission of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent communicated to me by your Lordship, I resigned the government of the Cape of Good Hope on the 4th of July. I shall lose no time in waiting upon your Lordship for the purpose of receiving your commands and of giving such explanations as may be required of me touching my own conduct or the state of the Settlement which was entrusted to my Care. No circumstance of any moment occur'd at the Cape in the interval of my last dispatch and the time of my resignation, but lest the opportunity should not have offered to Mr. Farquhar I transmit your Lordship some information regarding three French frigates which appeared off the Mauritius in the month of May. I have etc. Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, September 11th 1811. SIR, I have the Honor to inform you that, in Pursuance of your Desire by Your Letter of the 23rd May, I have forwarded to Mr. Farquhar his Commission as Governor of the Isle of France, &c. As Admiral Stopford with the whole of the Naval Force had proceeded to Batavia, I was obliged to avail myself of the opportunity of Lt. Dixon of the Engineers going to that station to take Charge of the Commission, and I entertain no Doubt of its safe delivery. I have etc. (Signed) J. F. CRADOCK... [Original.] Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, September 13th 1811. MY LORD, I have the Honor to acquaint Your Lordship that I arrived in His Majesty' Ship Emerald at this Station on the 5th Inst., and assumed the Government on the same Day. From the very short Period that has elapsed since my Arrival, it is out of my Power at present to submit to your Lordship any further Information than the general Sentiment that the Civil and Military Proceedings of this Settlement appear to have been conducted on the best Principles, and cannot fail to reflect the highest Honor upon my Predecessor in the Government and Command of the Forces. As soon as ever I shall feel myself competent to the Duty, I shall lay before your Lordship every Detail that can put your Lordship into full Possession of the actual State of this Establishment, in either its Civil or Military View. In the meantime I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your Lordship's Dispatches delivered to me at Portsmouth, from No. 1 to 7, and shall have the Honor to reply to them as well as the very limited Information I can have obtained will permit. No. 1. Dated the 22nd April 1811. The Transcription of His Majesty's Commission and Instructions. 2. Dated the 22nd April 1811. The Communication of a Minute from the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade and Plantations, &c. Upon this extensive Subject every Attention will be given, and the fullest Information submitted as soon as practicable. 3. Dated 22nd April 1811. Desiring that every assistance should be given to Commissioner Shield in the Inspection of the Woods in this Settlement, &c. Mr. Jones, the Gentleman named in the Communication from the Lords of the Admiralty, is arrived, and every Assistance has already been afforded to him by the Lt. Governor, Lt. General Grey. 4. Dated 16th May 1811. Respecting the Claims and Situation of Baron Van Hogendorp. It appears that the Earl of Caledon, in his Dispatch to Mr. Secretary Windham of the 7th June 1807, has very fully reported upon the Case of this Gentleman (a Copy of which I have the Honor to enclose), and I cannot as yet learn that anything has since appeared to strengthen his Claims. If I find that Circumstances arise to sustain his further Pretensions, I shall have the Honor to advert again to the Subject, and shall in obedience to your Lordship's Desire, give every due support to the Baron or his Agents. 5. Dated 18th May 1811. With a Communication from the Treasury that some Deviations have taken place in the Issue of Military allowances, And Enclosing Two Books for my future guidance, &c. I communicated this Dispatch to the Honble Lt Genl. Grey, who does not, after a careful examination, appear aware of any Deviation, and I submit the Acting Deputy Commissary General's Letter to the General, expressing himself to the same effect. 6. Dated the 18th June 1811. Desiring Information respecting the ship Felicity alleged to have cleared out at the Custom House of the Cape. I am informed by the Colonial Secretary that the Ship Felicity did sail from the Cape, and cleared out by the permission of the Earl of Caledon. 7. Dated the 18th June 1811. To announce the Death of Mr. Agar, and the appointment of Mr. Willimot as Colonial Agent in England. I have also to acknowlege a Dispatch addressed to the Earl of Caledon, dated the 20th April 1811, relative to the Payment of Alledged Prize Money to the Captors of the Colony. Upon this Subject, as it is of considerable Importance and some Difficulty, I regret to defer Observation until the next Dispatch. I have at present only to add that in every Respect it will be my anxious Endeavor to fulfil the Intentions of His Majesty's Government. I have etc. (Signed) J. F. CRADOCK. [Original.] Letter from the REVEREND DR. HALLORAN to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. THE RETREAT, TAMERTON NEAR PLYMOUTH, 19th September 1811. MY LORD,-I had the Honor to address your Lordship, nearly a twelvemonth ago, from the Cape of Good Hope, stating various Instances of Hardship and Oppression to which British Residents in that Colony had been peculiarly subjected. And, in May last, on my return to England, I immediately forwarded to your Lordship, officially, a Number of Cases of individual Oppression, which I stated my readiness to authenticate; More particularly I detailed to your Lordship the illegal Severities exercised personally against myself by the Colonial Government, And solicited the Redress, which I consider justly due, for the cruel Injuries, I may add, almost total ruin, which myself and family have sustained. Your Lordship, thro' the Medium of Mr. Peel, replied to the latter Representation, with equal Propriety and Equity, deferring to enter into the Merits of the Case till the return to this Country of the Parties against whose Conduct I appealed. I am this day apprized by my Law Agent of Lord Caledon's Arrival in London, where I purpose to be on Tuesday Next, and where I shall hope to be honored with your Lordship's Commands, addressed to me at Mr. Browne's Chambers No. 2 Bernard's Inn, Holborn. The whole of the proceedings, Correspondence, &c., in my Case, are in the Press, and will be ready for Publication before the period fixed for the Meeting of Parliament. I have purposely retarded their progress thro' the press till Lord Caledon's Arrival; not wishing to prepossess the Public with any unfavorable Impressions in His Lordship's regard, or to anticipate their Judgement on the Subject. The power of Self Vindication being now open to Him by his Return, the same motive of delicacy no longer subsists; and the Publication shall be expedited and laid before Your Lordship, with as little delay as possible. In the meantime, I have etc. (Signed) L. HALLORAN, D.D. |