28th. Whereas it is absolutely necessary that We be exactly informed of the state of Defence of the said Settlement as well in relation to the State of War as to the Forts and Fortifications that are there and what more may be necessary to be built for the Defence and Security of the same you are from time to time to transmit an Account thereof in the most particular manner and you are therein to express the State of the Arms Ammunition and other Stores of War belonging to the said Settlement either in any Public Magazine or in the hands of any private Persons together with a State of all Places either already fortified or that you may judge necessary to be fortified for the security of the Settlement and you are to transmit the said Accounts to Us thro' One of our Principal Secretaries of State and also Duplicates thereof to Our Master General or Principal Officer of Our Ordnance which Accounts are to express the Particulars of Ordnance Carriages Balls Powder and all sorts of Arms and Ammunition now in the Public Stores and so from time to time of what shall be sent to you or bought with the Public Money and to Specify the time of the Disposal and the occasion thereof and other like Accounts half yearly in the same manner.

29th. You are hereby particularly authorized and required for the better security of the said Settlement and for the maintenance of Good Order within the same to raise such Troops therein and to call out and embody such Companies or Corps of Militia as you shall judge necessary for that purpose and fine or imprison such Persons as refuse to be enrolled and to serve With the same view of maintaining Order and good Government you are also authorized to disarm such of the Inhabitants of the said Settlement as are not Proprietors or are not employed in any Civil or Military Capacity or have not your licence for keeping their Arms and to remove and send away from the said Settlement such Persons as you shall suspect of adhering to Our Enemies and all such other l'ersons the continuance of whose Residence you may have reason to imagine might be inconvenient or prejudicial to the Peace good Order and Security of the said Settlement.

30th. Whereas We have been informed that during the time of War Our Enemies have frequently got Intelligence of the state of Our Settlements or Plantations by Letters from private Persons to their Correspondents in Great Britain taken on Board Ships coming from such Settlements and Plantations which has been of

dangerous consequence Our Will and Pleasure therefore is that you signify to all Merchants Inhabitants and others that they be very cautious in time of War whenever that shall happen in giving any Accounts by Letters of the Public State and condition of the said Settlement and you are further to give directions to all Masters of Ships or other Persons to whom you may entrust your Letters that they put such Letters into a Bag with a sufficient Weight to sink the same immediately in case of imminent danger from the Enemy and you are also to let the Merchants and Inhabitants know how greatly it is for their Interest that their Letters should not fall into the hands of the Enemy and therefore that they should give the like Orders to Masters of Ships with respect to their Letters and you are further to advise all Masters of Ships that they do sink all Letters in case of danger in the manner before mentioned.

31st. If any thing shall happen which may be of advantage to the security of the said Settlement which is not herein or by your Commission provided for We do hereby allow you to take Order for the present therein giving unto Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State speedy notice thereof that you may receive Our Ratification if We shall approve the same Provided always that you do not by color of any Power or Authority hereby given you commence or declare War without Our knowledge and particular Commands therein except it be for the purpose of preventing or repelling Hostilities or unavoidable Emergencies.

32nd. And Whereas great Prejudice may happen to Our Service and to the security of the said Settlement by the absence of You Our Governor in Chief you shall not upon any pretence whatsoever come to Europe without having first obtained Leave for so doing from Us under Our Royal Sign Manual and Signet or by Our Order in Our Privy Council or by Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State.

33rd. And you are upon all occasions to send to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State a particular account of all your Proceedings and of the condition of Affairs within Your Government.

34th. It is Our express Will and Pleasure that nothing in these Our Instructions or in Our Commission herewith annexed or anything which may be contained in any future Instructions which you may receive from Us whether under Our Royal Sign

Manual or by Our Order in Council or thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State shall be construed by You or by any other Person to restrain limit or in any respect narrow Our Power to do arrange and determine everything with respect to the said Settlement in the same manner as in Our Royal Wisdom We might have done if the said Commission or these or any future Instructions were not given and had not been acted upon.

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Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to the EARL OF CALEDON. DOWNING STREET, 20th April 1811.

MY LORD,-Application having been made to this Office in behalf of the Forces employed in the Capture of the Cape, praying that Instructions might be given to the Governor of that Settlement for the payment to the Agent of the Captors of so much of the Sums retained under the Report of the Advocate General of the 23 Sept. 1807, as had been condemned as Prize in the High Court of Admiralty; a reference was made to the King's Proctor of all the documents which relate to this Case, and I have in consequence received from him the accompanying Report; I am therefore to desire you will give the necessary directions, in conformity with the Opinion therein stated, for paying over to the Agent for the Captors the Funds in question. I have etc.

(Signed) LIVERPOOL.

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Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 22nd April 1811.

SIR, I transmit to you herewith the copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty dated the 1st Instant stating the request of the Lords Commissioners, that the Governor of His

Majesty's Settlements at the Cape may be instructed to render every assistance in his power to co-operate with Commissioner Shield in carrying into effect the measures directed by their Lordships to be taken in order to investigate the nature and qualities of Woods growing in those Settlements. I am to desire you will pay the utmost attention to this important object.

Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 22nd April 1811.

SIR, I have the honor of transmitting to you the enclosed copy of a minute of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade and Plantations on a dispatch from the Earl of Caledon referred to their Lordships dated 10th October 1809.

I am to desire that upon your Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, you will lose no time in carrying into effect the measures that are recommended by their Lordships for the improvement of the Revenue and of the mode in which it is collected at present, subject of course to that discretionary Power which a change of circumstances or the advantage of local information may render it expedient to exercise.

It is material that the fullest information should be given at as early a period as possible on the other Points adverted to in their Lordships' Minute, in which additional explanations are required before any positive Instructions can be conveyed to You. I have etc.

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Letter from the EARL OF LIVERPOOL to SIR JOHN CRADOCK. DOWNING STREET, 22nd April, 1811.

SIR, I herewith transmit to you a Commission under the Great Seal appointing you Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, together with Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual for your guidance in that Government. I have etc.

Commission to SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

George The Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith To Our Trusty and Well Beloved John Francis Cradock Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath and of the Turkish Order of the Crescent and Lieutenant General in Our Ariny Greeting Whereas We did by our Letter Patent under Our Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing date at Westminster the thirtieth day of July 1806 in the Forty sixth year of our Reign constitute and appoint Our Right Trusty and Well Beloved Cousin Dupré Earl of Caledon of that part of Our United Kingdom called Ireland to be Our Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with its Territories and Dependencies as also of the Castle thereof and all Forts and Garrisons erected and established or which shall be erected or established within the said Settlement Territories and Dependencies for and during Our Will and Pleasure Now Know you that We have revoked and determined and by these Presents do revoke and determine the said recited Letter Patent and every Clause Article and thing therein contained and further know you that We reposing especial trust and confidence in the prudence courage and Loyalty of you the said Sir John Francis Cradock of Our especial grace certain Knowledge and mere motion have thought fit to that end to constitute and appoint you the said Sir John Francis Cradock to be Our Governor