Art. 18.-The treasurer of the town finances shall keep a separate account of the receipts and expenditure of the market, which account shall annually be examined by the burgher senate, and then be submitted to government.

Art. 19. Should the receipts of the market amount to less than the expenditure, the revenue of the market shall be augmented in such proportion as may be found necessary.

Art. 20. Neither the overseer nor any other person employed in the market shall be permitted to purchase any thing at the market, for the purpose of trading or trafficking therewith on his own account, neither directly nor indirectly, on pain of forfeiting his situation.

Art. 21. The burgher senate shall be at liberty to make such amplifications and alterations in these market regulations as may be deemed necessary, subject however to the approbation of government.

Cape of Good Hope, 27th April 1812.

Proclamation by SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

Concerning the creation of new pieces to exchange for defaced

and worn out paper money. Similar to many preceding.

1st of May 1812.

[Original.]

Letter from CAPTAIN HALL to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL.

DEAL, 8th May 1812.

MY LORD, I again venture to entreat your Lordship's attention to a reconsideration of the subject of my project and explanatory treatise on a Military Farming Establishment in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, in pressing this subject repeatedly on your Lordship's notice I can only plead my anxiety for the relief of my fellow countrymen. The present awful state of the United Empire as to provisions and commerce were but too correctly anticipated and pointed out in my project upwards of three years back, and every day's experience imperiously points out the necessity and propriety of resorting to strong measures to avert those evils which, uncorrected, threaten the very existence of the State, and which cannot long be warded off without some speedy and efficacious measures to counteract their tendency, and I know of none so little objectionable and so likely to be effectual as those pointed out by me. Your Lordship's time is too valuable to be taken up by long statements on trifling occasions, in this instance the subject is of sufficient importance to ensure a favorable consideration of any representation that may contribute to the removal or alleviation of the present alarming distress of the country. If further arguments were wanted, and your Lordship's time would permit, I would quote such corroboratory and eminent authorities in support of my statements, in addition to the written and oral sentiments that have been made public since I first presumed to address your Lordship on the subject, that would give a weight and consequence to them I am well aware they stand in need of, coming as they do from so humble an individual. Having submitted my explanatory treatise for the consideration and opinion of the Gentleman whose letters I have quoted in that treatise, and no longer under any restraint as to using his name, I beg leave to enclose a copy of his letter to me on the subject. I have several letters from Gentlemen of rank and consequence who have perused my plan, both in this country and Ireland, expressive of their approbation and the utility of its adoption, and am strongly urged by all to publish it. This I cannot bring myself to think of, as it strikes me it would be highly indecorous to do so whilst under the

consideration of your Lordship, and also as the public mind is so heated and alive to the distress and pressure of the times that it would only be adding fuel to the flame, a consideration of all others of the utmost importance to be avoided, the evils of which first induced me to the exertion of my humble efforts to point out (I conceive) an effectual remedy in future if carried into effect. . . . I have, &c.

(Signed)

JOHN HALL, Captain Canadian
Fencibles.

[First Enclosure in the above.]

Letter from F. PERCEVAL ELLIOT, ESQRE., to

CAPTAIN HALL.

32 OLD BURLINGTON STREET, 20th April 1812. DEAR SIR,-Accompanying this I return your very interesting papers on the subject of the military farming project at the Cape, and can assure you with great truth that it has my entire concurrence, and the more so because it does not appear to me likely to be attended with any very dangerous expense to the public, especially if tried at first on the small scale recommended in your papers, and the corps can at any time be easily converted into a Garrison Battalion for the local service of the Cape, should even the farming experiment not be found to answer, so that the utmost loss to Government would be the cost of a few ploughs and other farming utensils, but I have little doubt of the thing as likely to turn out very useful. I could say much on the subject had I more leisure, but you know how completely my time is occupied. . . . I wish I could have bestowed on it that time and attention it so well deserves; it is a subject on which I have thought much, and often in great opposition to popular opinions, particularly on the subject of Granaries, the local situation of which, however, every day's experience more imperiously points out to be in the immediate protection and neighbourhood of Barracks. I am obliged to quit this subject very unwillingly, and wishing your plan all possible success remain &c.

(Signed) F. PERCEVAL ELLIOT.

The papers connected with this subject are too voluminous for publication. The following extract from Captain Hall's treatise will suffice to explain his plan:

Government have several very fine large Farms at the Cape of Good Hope, some of the best Land in the Country, and might at their option enclose and cultivate any quantity they found necessary or proper for this purpose. I would propose to form a Corps composed of some men who are not fit for active service, from ruptures and other causes; most of these men should be farmers by profession, others artificers, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelwrights, saddlers, &c., and I should prefer married men with children, by which means the population of the country would be increased with a description of people who from principle would have the interest of the Mother Country at heart, whose feelings and habits would induce them to adopt the manners and customs of their Ancestors, and might eventually lead to the adoption of our Laws; to these men I would propose to add as many boys from 12 to 15 years of age as Government might think proper, these with the assistance and direction of the formed men would cultivate the land, by which means a large quantity of Corn might be raised and stored at the Cape, and could be taken to England or elsewhere from time to time as back carriage by trading vessels that took out goods to the Cape, by transports conveying troops, or any other vessels Government might think fit to employ; this would also tend to increase our seamen; in addition to the Corn raised, pasturage for cattle for the army and for horses for the use of the cavalry or Government would be abundant, and by planting in different parts of the country Wood, which at present is extremely scarce, would be another (though remote) source of profit to Government, and of great advantage to the Colony; all this could be managed and taken care of by the Corps, and the boys, as they grew up, could be regularly instructed in the duties and habits of a soldier, and from being taken into the service so young would be more attached to it than from entering at a more advanced time of life; at the age of eighteen I would transfer these boys to the different Regiments in India, which would furnish a supply of young men, formed soldiers, and inured to the climate, an advantage of no small consideration, and in case of emergency, of any sudden or extraordinary demand for Troops in the East Indies, this Corps might for a time compose

part of the Garrison of the Cape and enable Government to send prompt assistance, which in all probability would arrive there before intelligence could reach England, as was the case in several instances during my residence at the Cape.

[Original.]

Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF

LIVERPOOL.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE Town, May 14th 1812. MY LORD, I have the satisfaction to communicate to your lordship my sanguine expectations that the small pox will soon terminate in this colony. Some instances may occur among those who have wilfully neglected vaccination, or who have perhaps been deceived by the former operation not skilfully practised, but as the whole mass have now been vaccinated, it seems nearly impossible that any material continuance of the disease can exist.

No case has occurred within the last three days.

I avail myself of this opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's dispatches Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14. We are however without intelligence from England since December.

Letter from ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE., to SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 14th May 1812.

SIR,-I transmit to you herewith a List of Officers belonging to the Cape Corps to whom advances were made by Messrs. Greenwood & Cox, in the Year 1806, previous to the said Officers leaving this Country; together with the amount of these Advances, and the periods for which they were made. Messrs. Greenwood