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Memorial to his Excellency LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR JOHN FRANCIS CRADOCK, Knight of the most Hon'ble Orders of the Bath and Crescent, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, &c., &c., &c.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, October 19th 1811. The memorial of the undermentioned British Inhabitants most respectfully representeth

That your Memorialists have had the honor to receive Your Excellency's Official Answer to their Memorial of the 21st of August on the Subject of exchange presented to the Honble. Lieut. Genl. Henry George Grey, then Acting Governor, in which your Excellency has been pleased to state, that tho' the prayer of their Memorial could not be immediately complied with, it should claim your Excellency's most serious consideration: a copy of which Memorial they now beg leave to enclose, humbly requesting that as no immediate steps can be taken in regard to the measure therein solicited, that Your Excellency will be graciously pleased to Submit the case to the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury, with such representation as may be deemed necessary. And as Memorialists have been led to understand that the adoption of the step, requesting that all Government Bills might be drawn payable to the Parties in England, and issued to such Individuals as had actually Remittances to make, would in the opinion of Government tend to depreciate the Exchange and thereby occasion a diminution of Revenue; they most respectfully beg to state, admitting that it might cause some fall in the Exchange, and on the Supposition that Government derives an advantage from its high rate, that such diminution would bear no sort of proportion to the increase of Revenue which would consequently ensue both to the Government at home as well as that of this Colony, by the facility and advantage which such a measure would afford to the Export of British Manufactured Goods for this Colony; the small Quantity of which imported this last year, when compared with any other period since the Capture of this Settlement, is a further proof that the System of monopoly complained of is not alone

inimical to the Mercantile interest, but that it materially affects the Revenue of Great Britain.

Again requesting that your Excellency will be pleased to transmit this Memorial, with the accompanying Copy of that of the 21st of August, to the Lords of the Treasury, and in the hope that the Subject will claim their attention, Memorialists as in duty bound will pray.

(Signed)

HAMILTON Ross

EBDEN AND WATTS

STEPHEN TWYCROSS JR.

AMYOT & Co.

EDWARD SMITH

ALEXR. WATTS

ROBERT SWAN

J. HOETS

R. J. JOHNSON
R. STONE.

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Letier from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, October 20th 1811.

MY LORD, I have the honour of transmitting to your Lordship herewith a Copy of a Memorial with copy of its Enclosure which has been laid before me by certain British Merchants of this Place, with a request that I should have the subject of it brought to the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.

The respectable interest which is affected by the very high rate of Exchange given for Government Bills is the motive which induces me to trouble your Lordship on this occasion, but I am not aware that a compliance with the Request of the Memorialists would do away the inconvenience they complain of.

Indeed the Merchants who now Solicit the interference of His Majesty's Treasury Department for their relief appear to me to have pointed out in their own speculations the true cause of the evil; they State to have imported in the course of the latter part

of the years 1809 and 1810 into this Settlement British Manufactures to the Value of near 500,000 pounds sterling; this Sum then, with some profit thereon, is in the hands of the Importers to be remitted to their Creditors in England, and there being little or no Export from hence, the only way in which the remittance can be effected is by Government Bills. Now the value of Bills drawn by the Army and Navy Departments in any one Year since the period in question not having amounted to more than half the Sum required for this excessive importation, and the other ordinary and usual call for Government Bills not having diminished, it is evident that the Competition caused thereby must have had the effect of raising the value of the Bills in question.

I am not however aware that any real advantage is derived to the Public Departments from the very high rate of Exchange, as the price of everything is enhanced thereby; certainly the Colonial Expenditure is much encreased by it, particularly the expences of the Cape Regiment, which is paid in paper currency, with the addition of the Exchange, and falls consequently nearly one third more heavily upon the Colonial Treasury than it did previous to the great rise of the Exchange.

The immediate cause of grievance to the Merchants arises under the following circumstances. Your Lordship is aware of the nature of the Paper Currency of this Colony, which is the only circulating Medium here, except that the Army is paid in Spanish Dollars at 4s. 8d. sterling.

This renders it necessary for the Commissary General to negotiate two different Sorts of Bills, One for Specie for the payment of the Troops, and One for Paper Currency for the other Expences of the Service. When the Specie has been distributed for the payment of the Companies, it appears that an active Broker makes it his business, by his own exertions and by those of Subordinate Agents, to purchase from the Soldiery and principally from the pay Sergeants as many of the Spanish Dollars as possible, and as a Money Dealer and Changer he spares no trouble to collect Specie to be ready to furnish the same to the Commissary or Paymaster General whenever Tenders for Bills may be advertised for. Having by these means the Command of this branch of the Money Market, he has it in his power to tender for Bills on more advantageous terms than his Competitors, and

has been in the habit of Securing the greater part of the Specie Bills, which he negotiates here for Paper Currency at such profit as he is able to obtain.

When Your Lordship considers the amount of Pay issued for this Garrison, your Lordship will see that the Traffic in question is to a considerable extent, but I am not prepared to say that the Service, that is the Paymaster General's Department, might not be seriously inconvenienced by any measures that might be taken to put a stop to this intermediate Trade.

Should the Lords of the Treasury nevertheless be inclined to take any general measure with regard to the negotiation of Public Bills in consequence of the inclosed representation, and thereby change the System now adopted of giving those Bills to the highest Bidder by Public Tender, it will of course occur to their Lordships that the Bills for the Naval Service should be Subject to the same rules as those which are drawn by my Authority as Commander of the Forces. I have etc.

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

HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP Scipion,

PORT LOUIS, 21st October 1811.

SIR,-You will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty with my arrival at Port Louis (Isle of France) yesterday. I sailed from Sourabaya (Island of Java) on the 29th Ultimo, and I beg leave to congratulate their Lordships on the Surrender of that valuable Island by Capitulation on the 18th September.

Their Lordships will be informed by my Letters sent by the Caroline from Batavia of the proceedings of the combined operations of the Navy and Army up to the 4th September, and as the opportunity which now offers for sending Letters to England is by an East India Company Cruizer, I shall defer Sending a more particular detail of the proceedings until the Phabe proceeds to

England with the Scipion and the two French Frigates lately taken upon this Station by the Astrea and Phoebe.

I shall therefore at present only state that Sir Samuel Auchmuty having received intelligence of General Janssens' intention of making a stand at Samarang, the expedition proceeded to that place instead of Sourabaya, the Troops landed without opposition on the 13th September, and a few days afterwards attacked the Enemy's position, which was carried with little loss.

As soon as the Troops were landed from the Men of War at Samarang I proceeded to Sourabaya, where the Marines were landed, and took possession of Gressie and Sourabaya. General Janssens, finding his retreat cut off, surrendered as above mentioned. My distance from the Head Quarters of the Army prevented my Signature to the terms, but I perfectly approve of them.

The Nisus, President, and Harpy arrived here this day, and I hourly expect the Lion and Phœbe.

I shall take the earliest opportunity of fulfilling their Lordships' Orders relative to the Isle of France, an account of which shall be transmitted by the Phoebe. I have etc.

(Signed)

ROBERT STOPFORD, Rear Admiral.

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Letter from the REV. DR. WERNINCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL.

38 FOLEY PLACE, CAVENDISH SQUARE,

October 22nd 1811.

MY LORD,-Having been requested some time ago by Mr. Alexander, in the name of His Excellency Lord Caledon, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, to recommend to your Lordship respectable and properly qualified Dutch Clergymen, who wish to obtain a living in the interior of that Colony, I beg leave to recommend to your Lordship's notice the Revd. T. I. Herold, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and last week arrived in this country from the University of Leyden, where he has finished his studies and been properly ordained for the Presbyterian Church. He has brought with him the best testimonials from his Professors respecting his moral conduct, abilities and qualification, on account