[Original.] Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. MY LORD, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship Copy of a Letter from Lieut. General Grey to Lord Caledon with Copies of its enclosures, on the Subject of a Supposed over issue of Pay made to Lieut. Lynch of the Cape Regiment from the Paymaster of the 62nd Foot, as Stated in your Lordship's Letter to Lord Caledon of the 2nd July 1810. I likewise enclose a certificate from the Officer commanding the Cape Regiment and the Paymaster, from all which it will appear that Lieut. Lynch did not draw Pay from that Corps previous to the 25th December 1806, and that any Pay due to him from the Cape Corps previous to that day is not chargeable against the Colony, as the Cape Regiment was at the period in question upon the British Establishment. I have etc. (Signed) J. F. CRADOCK, [Copy.] Government Advertisement. His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of the disposition which he has already expressed for the welfare of this settlement, and for the encouragement of the industry of its inhabitants, has directed it to be made public that he intends to set on foot and protect an undertaking for the supply of salt provisions to the army and navy on this establishment, cured within the Colony. His Excellency therefore is willing to encourage proposals from any person or persons whatsoever, willing to contract to deliver tierces or barrels of beef at Cape Town, Algoa Bay, Mossel Bay, or Saldanha Bay, or any convenient place for its embarkation, and will receive them until the 5th of March, 1812. Every information as to the quality of the meat, the nature of the packages, and the advances to be made to enable the parties, capable of giving undoubted security, to undertake such a contract, will be given at the offices of R. Hill, Esq., Commissary-General, and of A. Johnson, Esq., agent victualler; as upon the excellence of the provision, and the moderation of the price, the success of the undertaking can alone be permanently secured. Castle of Good Hope, 1st November 1811. By command of His Excellency the Governor. Proclamation by SIR JOHN CRADOCK. Concerning the exchange of new pieces for worn out and defaced paper money. Similar to many preceding. 1st of November 1811. DOWNING STREET, 7 November 1811. Permit Mr. Van Blommestein and family to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope. [Copy.] Government Advertisement. Notice is hereby given to merchants and others importing and exporting goods, wares, or merchandize from the Isles of Mauritius and Bourbon, that they are not upon any plea or pretence to exceed the licences granted here, with the concurrence of the agent for the Hon. E. I. Company according to law, or to import other than the articles specified in such licences, without being subject to the enforcement of the pains and penalties by the different acts of Parliament imposed and made for the protection of the trade of the Hon. E. I. Company. Also, further notice is given, that no entry will be admitted in the Custom House, or permit given for the exportation of any goods, wares, or merchandize, not the product of the Cape of Good Hope or its dependencies, unless under peculiar circumstances, previously specified, laid before, and approved of by the Hon. the Company's agent, sea stores and necessaries for the voyage excepted. Castle of Good Hope, 8th November 1811. By command of His Excellency the Governor. (Signed) HENRY ALEXANDER, Secretary. [Original.] Letter from the EARL OF CALEDON to ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE. CALEDON, 10th November 1811. SIR, I have received the honor of your letter requiring on the part of Lord Liverpool some information as to the number of livings held by the Dutch regular Clergymen at the Cape of Good Hope and of the provision which is made for their Salaries. I am sorry that I cannot write with the precision I should otherwise use if I had access to my papers which are in London, but as well as my memory serves there are Eight livings, exclusive of the Reformed and Lutheran Church Establishments in Cape Town, the salaries are paid by Government out of the Colonial treasury and amount to about £200 per annum. The difficulty of procuring regular Clergymen has been considerable, and when they have resided in the country districts and applied themselves with assiduity to their clerical functions they have materially improved the morals of the Inhabitants. Under these considerations, and knowing that two livings were vacant when I left the Cape, I beg leave to recommend for Lord Liverpool's further consideration the application of Dr. Werninck in favor of the Revd. T. I. Herold, who is well connected at the Cape, and who left it some years ago for the purpose of studying theology at Leyden. I have etc. [Office Copy.] Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN CRADOCK. DOWNING STREET, 23rd November 1811. SIR,-The Revd. T. I. Herold, a Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, having been strongly recommended to me by the Earl of Caledon and the Revd. Dr. Werninck as a proper person to fill one of the vacant Livings at the Cape of Good Hope, I have accordingly appointed him to go out for that purpose. I have etc. Letter from the EARL OF CALEDON to ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE. CALEDON, November 23rd 1811. DEAR SIR,-In reply to your note in which you wish for information as to the appointment of a Civil Chaplain at the Cape of Good Hope, I am to Acquaint you that no such appointment has yet taken place. I recommended this measure to Lord Castlereagh in the year 1807, and stated as a particular reason for the adoption of it that the military Chaplain was liable at any time to be detached from the Cape, in which event the civilians were deprived of the only Clergyman of the Established church of England resident in the Colony, I proposed at the same time that his salary should be equivalent to the military Chaplain's and to be defrayed by the Colonial Government. Lord Castlereagh approved of my recommendation, but his Lordship never appointed to the Office. If Lord Liverpool has it in contemplation to carry this measure into effect, and has not yet selected any gentleman, I beg leave to observe that the appointment of a Clergyman who would take pupils or keep a school would materially benefit the Colony. I have etc. (Signed) CALEDON. [Copy.] Proclamation by SIR JOHN CRADOCK. Whereas J. A. Truter, Esq., His Majesty's fiscal, and C. van Nuldt Onkruydt, Esq., president of the Burgher Senate, have, in obedience to my commands, assessed the different farmers in such proportions of barley as it will be incumbent on them to furnish for the supply of His Majesty's cavalry during the ensuing year: I do therefore think proper to notify my approbation of the abovementioned assessment, and further to direct that the several farmers herein named do deliver at the commissary general's stores in Cape Town, on or before the last day of April 1812, the several quotas of barley expressed against their names in the following list. And if any farmer or farmers so assessed shall not have delivered his or their proportion of barley on or before the day above stated, His Majesty's fiscal will be instructed to cause an equal quantity to be purchased at the expence of such farmer or farmers, and to be delivered at His Majesty's stores. The inhabitants dwelling in the neighbourhood of Saldanha Bay may deliver their quotas to the superintendant Mr. Kendler, who will be directed to give receipts for the same; and such farmers as may not be able to furnish the whole proportion of their assessment in barley will be at liberty to deliver oats, provided five muids thereof be given in lieu of four of barley. And whereas it has been reported to me that the sum of two Rds. and six skillings for a muid of barley, or a muid and a quarter of oats, appears to be a fair and equitable price for the same, I do therefore hereby make known that the above sum will be paid by the deputy commissary general for the barley he may receive during the before stipulated time. Given under my hand and seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this 29th day of November 1811. Permit Mr. Herold and his wife to proceed to the Cape. |