mand of Captain Woodriffe, whose high approbation of your memorialist's conduct addressed to the Transport Board, together with that of the Governor of St. Helena to the Honorable East India Company, was lost, in consequence of which the Transport Board have refused reimbursement.

That the day he returned to the Cape Admiral Linois arrived at Simon's Bay with the prisoners of the Honorable Company's ship Brunswick, the whole of whom he likewise offered to exchange, and which after much delay and consequent expences was at last agreed to, both by the government and Admiral Linois.

In the month of November 1805 the privateer Napoleon brought into this port as prisoners of war the crews of the ships Hercules and Diamond.

To fulfil to the utmost of his power what he had begun, your Memorialist likewise procured their release, and paid their passage to St. Helena. The Hercules was from Bombay direct, and the Diamond was a Whaler.

Your Memorialist is exceedingly sorry at being under the necessity of intruding upon your Excellency, on a subject that affects himself only, but your Excellency being upon the spot, invested with all the power his Majesty can confer, he considers it a duty to his family to represent these circumstances to you, begging that your Excellency will have the goodness to represent the same, to his Majesty's Ministers, or to whoever your Excellency may in your wisdom think most proper, for the relief of your Memorialist.

Your Memorialist has disbursed two thousand one hundred and seventy-two pounds two shillings sterling for the officers and crew of the Honorable Company's ship Experiment, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five pounds fourteen shillings and two pence sterling for the officers and crew of the Honorable Company's ship Brunswick, and for the officers and crews of the ships Hercules and Diamond six hundred and twenty pounds sixteen shillings and two pence sterling, for all of which he has regular vouchers, properly authenticated copies thereof are ready for your Excellency's inspection when required, and all of which have been regularly transmitted to the Honorable Commissioners of His Majesty's Transport Board, and for the care and custody of prisoners of war, from whom your Memorialist has not been able to procure any other answer thro' his agent than that there was no precedent for it, and there

information and a perusal of all the original documents may in

his wisdom think proper.

And in duty bound your Memorialist will ever pray.

[Enclosure 4 in the above.]

To the RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM WINDHAM, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, &c., &c.

The Memorial of Alexander Tennant humbly sheweth, That your Memorialist has resided in this colony nearly eleven years, that he was born a British subject and never has been a burgher or citizen of any other country.

That in the year 1803 your Memorialist with all his countrymen in this colony, were declared state prisoners, and as such ordered into the interior under strict guard, after six months' confinement in the interior, they were permitted to return to the capital; during this period several of his countrymen were reduced to extreme indigence and distress, some of whom your Memorialist supported at his own personal expence.

That shortly after their release the French privateer called the Napoleon brought into Simon's Bay the prisoners of the Honorable East India Company's ship Experiment, on hearing that these prisoners were to be sent into the interior there to remain in jail during the present war, your Memorialist applied to the Dutch Government to get these prisoners exchanged, and the more to facilitate this, he offered to send them away at his own expence, which was complied with after your Memorialist giving the French agent here security that each should be exchanged for a French prisoner according to his rank.

Your Memorialist immediately freighted an American Brig to carry these prisoners to the Island of St. Helena, and that they might not become any burthen to that island he laid in sufficient provision to carry them to England; on this occasion your Memorialist availed himself of the opportunity of offering a free passage to all those of his poor indigent countrymen who had been reduced to distress by having been torn from their industrious callings and sent to confinement in the country, and he did carry every one that accepted his offer to the island free of any expence whatever.

and for which inaccuracies he can give no other reason than being perfectly ignorant of the regulations thereof. That the dimensions of the vessel employed could not admit of merchandise after taking on board water and provisions for three months for the number of passengers on board, and this precaution was absolutely necessary, the Island of St. Helena being often perfectly unable to afford those supplies, that your Memorialist did pay at the request of Captain Grant £130 for the passage of himself and four others to the Island of St. Helena, and the reason the same was given in the form of a present was because the masters of such ships are accountable to their owners for passage money but not for presents. Your Memorialist likewise most humbly craves the notice of the honorable board, that notwithstanding the high price per man upon the aggregate of the accounts an equal or greater has been incurred by the Honorable East India Company between Bombay and the Isle of France, and he humbly hopes that when the honorable board considers the prisoners were supplied with everything for the whole passage to England at a time when a great scarcity of provisions existed in the colony, so much so that every person without exception was upon allowance of brown bread, the honorable board will not find these accounts high under such circumstances.

Your honorable board will have observed in your memorialist's former papers, that he has laid out nearly four years ago the sum of £5688 sterling for the relief and exchange of prisoners of war, and that the simple interest on such sum amounts to nearly £1200, which with the principal makes together the sum of £6888 sterg., which your memorialist avers most sacredly he is at this moment laying out of, and he is sorry to add it has been the cause of great embarrassment to himself and family.

Your Memorialist most humbly begs your honorable board will be pleased to take all the circumstances attending this to your Memorialist's unfortunate undertaking, into your consideration, and he rests with the highest confidence in the honor and justice of your honorable board for the payment of such sum as you may think him truly entitled to, and in the manner your honorable board may find most convenient.

Your Memorialist has laid this memorial before J. Shield Esqr. commissioner for His Majesty's Navy in this settlement, praying him to forward the same, with such remarks as he from local

information and a perusal of all the original documents may in his wisdom think proper.

And in duty bound your Memorialist will ever pray.

[Enclosure 4 in the above.]

To the RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM WINDHAM, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, &c., &c.

The Memorial of Alexander Tennant humbly sheweth,

That your Memorialist has resided in this colony nearly eleven years, that he was born a British subject and never has been a burgher or citizen of any other country.

That in the year 1803 your Memorialist with all his countrymen in this colony, were declared state prisoners, and as such ordered into the interior under strict guard, after six months' confinement in the interior, they were permitted to return to the capital; during this period several of his countrymen were reduced to extreme indigence and distress, some of whom your Memorialist supported at his own personal expence.

That shortly after their release the French privateer called the Napoleon brought into Simon's Bay the prisoners of the Honorable East India Company's ship Experiment, on hearing that these prisoners were to be sent into the interior there to remain in jail during the present war, your Memorialist applied to the Dutch Government to get these prisoners exchanged, and the more to facilitate this, he offered to send them away at his own expence, which was complied with after your Memorialist giving the French agent here security that each should be exchanged for a French prisoner according to his rank.

Your Memorialist immediately freighted an American Brig to carry these prisoners to the Island of St. Helena, and that they might not become any burthen to that island he laid in sufficient provision to carry them to England; on this occasion your Memorialist availed himself of the opportunity of offering a free passage to all those of his poor indigent countrymen who had been reduced to distress by having been torn from their industrious callings and sent to confinement in the country, and he did carry every one that accepted his offer to the island free of any expence whatever.

Your Memorialist foresaw if the war continued that this corner of Africa would become a nest of French privateers, he represented the same to Lord Camden then in office and to the honorable the Commissioners of H. M. transport Board, but never was honored by an answer from either.

Unfortunately for your Memorialist His Majesty's ship Calcutta was taken in defence of her convoy, and all his original papers transmitted by her were lost, amongst these were the strongest recommendations of Governor Patton to the Honorable Company, and Captain Woodriff to the transport board.

The day your Memorialist arrived from St. Helena, Admiral Linois brought the prisoners of the Honorable Company's ship Brunswick into Simon's Bay, after much delay and evasion on the part of Admiral Linois he procured the release of those prisoners and sent them to St. Helena, and after them the prisoners of the ships Hercules and Diamond.

Your Memorialist has disbursed two thousand one hundred and seventy-two pounds two shillings sterling for the officers and crew of the Honorable Company's ship Experiment, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five pounds fourteen shillings and two pence stg. for the officers and crew of the Honorable Company's ship Brunswick, and for the officers and crews of the ships Hercules and Diamond six hundred and twenty pounds sixteen shillings and two pence sterling, for all of which he has regular vouchers properly authenticated, and all of which have been regularly transmitted to the Honorable Commissioners of His Majesty's Transport Board and for the care and custody of prisoners of war, from whom your Memorialist has not been able to procure any other answer through his agent than that there was no precedent for it, and therefore it would not be paid.

Your memorialist has taken the liberty of laying the whole of these circumstances before His Excellency the right honorable the Earl of Caledon, who has been pleased to recommend your Memorialist to represent the same to you, being one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state.

Your memorialist therefore humbly requests you will be pleased to take the same into consideration and procure him relief and payment of the aforesaid disbursements to his agent Mr. Henry Houghton in any way that you in your wisdom should see proper.

And your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray, &c., &c.