great activity and the most approved character for integrity and general propriety. If I should have the good fortune to find Your Lordship without engagement, it would confer upon me the highest favor to be permitted to recommend a very near relative, Mr. Frederick Cradock, upon whose ability for business and upright character I can place the greatest reliance. If Your Lordship has the goodness to accede to my earnest request, I shall receive it as an additional favor if you will be so kind as to direct a communication to him at the Revd. Thomas Cradock's, Library, Bride Street, Dublin, that he may be prepared to obey such commands as Your Lordship may be pleased to give, I have &c. (Signed) J. F. CRADOCK. [Original.] Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN, MY LORD,—It would give me great satisfaction to have the power of submitting to Your Lordship some conclusive intelligence upon the subject of my Dispatch No. 3 of the 18th October relative to the coercive measures I have been obliged to adopt against those tribes of the Caffre nation that have penetrated into His Majesty's Territories and committed the outrages already laid before Your Lordship; but the last communications I have received from Colonel Graham, the Commanding Officer and Civil Commissioner, reach no further than the 21st November, and contain no other account than the general disposition of his Forces, principally stationed with the view of effecting that part of his orders to enforce, should it prove necessary, the retreat of the whole of that nation within their own boundaries. Colonel Graham's communication, from the short time he had been on the frontier, leaves everything pretty much in the same state of view as when I had the honor to address Your Lordship; and I have every reason to hope that the result of his operations may end in considerable advantage to the interests and permanent tranquillity of the Colony. However from the extensive Tracts of Country he has to act in and the difficulty to preserve the due connection between his posts, Col. Graham is engaged in a very arduous task, and it will require the constant support of Government to effect to the point desired the objects of his mission. I have etc. Permission for Messrs. Martins with their Servant Anthony Schaffer also Messrs. Lichtvack and Horslen to proceed to the Cape. [Original.] Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN, MY LORD, I have the Honor to transmit to your Lordship the returns from the Custom House, called for by the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations. As they do not extend to the periods, I should believe, that their Lordships wish to embrace, I annex the Letter from the Collector, as the best explanation in my Power, of any Deficiency that may appear. I have the Honor to report the Death of Mr. Truter, Chief Searcher of the Customs. I have etc. [Copy.] Letter from the Collector of Customs to the Colonial Secretary. CUSTOM HOUSE, 18th December 1811. SIR,—I beg leave to acknowledge the extract from Lord Liverpool's dispatch dated April 23rd 1811, stating "The Lords of the Committee finding that there is not in the Office of His Majesty's Secretary of State an Account of the Imports and Exports of the Colony as directed to be kept by the 19th Article of the Collector's Instructions on No. 22 or any other Paper to shew the Amount of the Imports and Exports in Foreign Ships, their Lordships cannot express a distinct opinion respecting the Duties on foreign Ships in the Tariff which excited very considerable surprise." In compliance with the wish of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief, I have the honor to transmit for His Excellency's information a Return of the Imports and Exports on foreign Ships from the year 1808 to 1811 and the Imports and Exports on British Ships for the present year. On inspection of the Custom House Books I find the amount of the Imports of British Goods had not been entered for some years by my Predecessors, and I presume in consequence of the Duties on the same being taken off. I have &c. (Signed) CHARLES BLAIR, Collector of Customs. The Imports and Exports by each ship are given, without a general total. In many instances the value of the articles is not given separately, so that it is impossible to make out a correct list of exports, far the greater proportion of which is of merchandise imported and prize goods. The following articles of Cape produce exported are extracted from these papers, but can only be taken as approximately correct. [Original.] Letter from MESSRS. ROBINSON, GIBBS, AND PLUMER to the May it please Your Lordship, DOCTORS COMMONS, 18th December 1811. We are honoured with Your Lordship's Letter of the 23rd Ultimo, Referring to a former Communication respecting doubts which have been excited at the Cape of Good Hope on the validity of certain Marriages solemnized there by a Person styling himself Dr. Halloran, and signifying the Commands of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, that We would state Our Opinion on the validity of such Marriages, for the purpose of removing any doubts that may still exist, and quieting the Minds of the Inhabitants thereon. In Obedience to Your Lordship's directions, We have considered the same, and are humbly of Opinion on all the Circumstances of the Case that the Marriages solemnized at the Cape by the Person officiating as a Clergyman, under assumed or forged Orders, cannot be vitiated or invalidated in any Manner by the Defect of the Holy Orders of Priesthood imputed to him. We have etc. Proclamation by SIR JOHN CRADOCK. Whereas it is necessary to call the serious attention of the Cultivator, the Merchant, and the Farmer of this Colony, to the subject of the Wine trade, a consideration above all others of the highest importance to its opulence and character. The beneficent intentions of the Government to promote this branch of commerce to its utmost extent are entirely defeated by the practices that prevail, whether in the view of the original preparation of the Wine, as in many respects erroneous and negligent, or of its improvident and thoughtless exportation, without concern as to its quality or age. The object seems alone to make |