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Proclamation by SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

Concerning the destruction of worn out and defaced paper money. Similar to many preceding.

16th of July 1812.

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Letter from SIR JOHN CRADOCK to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN, 21st July 1812. MY LORD, I have the honor to lay before your Lordship the defective state of the Church Establishment of this Colony, as far as respects the Dutch inhabitants.

It seems impossible without having recourse to Europe to supply the situations at present vacant, and from the infirm state of health of several of the actual incumbents further vacancies must soon arise.

It cannot but afford great satisfaction to observe the increasing inclinations of the people for the extension of all the clerical duties, and the ardor with which the most distant settlers solicit the erection of churches and places of worship, a subject that I have lately had the honor to submit to the notice of your Lordship.

I may therefore say that we shall be most happy to receive six additional clergymen.

I beg to further submit to your Lordship that I found it absolutely necessary to augment the salaries of the Ministers in the Country Districts (those in Town having some exclusive advantages) from 1000 Rds. to 1500 per annum, to enable them to support with becoming credit their station, and even with this addition the object is not sufficiently attained. It is not so much the higher prices of all European commodities as the extraordinary charge of labor, and the purchase of slaves is at present out of the reach of all persons who do not possess considerable funds of their own.

The income of the Dutch clergymen may now be estimated at

£300 per annum Cape currency, or upon the average of £200 sterling. To this may be added the advantage of a house and generally the annexation of what may be styled some glebe land.

List of the Clergymen belonging to the Reformed Church at present in the Settlement.

The clergymen of Tulbagh and the Zwartberg are in so infirm a state of health that their lives are considered to be extremely precarious.

(Signed) J. F. CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 21st July 1812.

Passport to Mrs. Le Febore and Daughter to go to the Cape.

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Government Advertisement.

Notice is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief has been pleased to appoint a Commission, consisting of the following gentlemen, with power to put up to auction, and farm out to the highest bidder, the wine and brandy licences for the ensuing twelve months, commencing from the first of September.

The particulars of the contracts may be seen both at the Colonial Secretary's and the Fiscal's Offices.

J. A. Truter, Esq., His Majesty's Fiscal, F. Dashwood, Esq., Receiver General, C. Brand, Esq., Collector of Tythes, and J. P. Baumgardt, Esq., Receiver General of Land Revenue.

The auction will be at the Burgher Senate House, on Saturday the 15th of August next, at 9 o'clock in the morning.

Castle of Good Hope, 24th July 1812.

By command of His Excellency the Governor.

Letter from LORD BATHURST to SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 27th July 1812.

SIR,-Your Letter with the proceedings of the Court of Justice in the Case of Mr. Venables has been submitted by my direction to the Consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and I now transmit to you a Copy of a Letter from Mr. Harrison, dated the 21st Instant, stating that their Lordships are of opinion that Mr. Venables has a Claim to the favorable Consideration of His Majesty's Government, and that it may not be improper to remit His Majesty's Share of the Fine. I am therefore to desire that your Conduct in this respect may be governed accordingly.

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Letter from LORD CHETWYND to ROBERT PEEL, ESQRE.

OFFICE OF COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE,

WHITEHALL, 28th July 1812.

SIR,-The Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade having had under their consideration the copy of a dispatch from Sir J. Cradock, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, (transmitted in your letter of the 20th December last) containing some observations on the subject of the regulations proposed by this Committee for the trade to and from that settlement; I am directed to acquaint you for the information of Earl Bathurst that the Lords of this Committee have nothing further to offer with respect to the duty on publick sales. Neither have they any further opinion to offer on the important point respecting the management of the land revenue of that settlement, until they shall have received the information which is collecting by Sir John Cradock. This observation applies also to the tythes as forming a part of the land

revenue.

The Lords of the Committee are satisfied with the governor's explanation respecting the proceeds of the grain commission, and approve of the measures he has adopted respecting a magazine for

corn.

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It does not appear to be necessary that anything further should be said on the subject of wine licences, as the governor is carrying into effect the recommendation of this committee in that respect. On the rent of the mill no observation is necessary.

It is very satisfactory to their lordships to find that their recommendation respecting the mode of taking the duty ad valorem on foreign goods imported has been adopted, and that the revenue derives great benefit from it.

The suggestion of a moderate duty on British goods imported into the Cape seems to their Lordships to be unexceptionable, if attentive care be taken that it shall in no instance be so high as to occasion a diminution in the consumption of those articles.

The instructions for the conduct of the officers of the customs are herewith transmitted, they have been carefully considered by the commissioners of the customs as well as by the Lords of the Committee, and observations are made thereupon, with a view of

rendering them effectual for the purposes intended; their Lordships trust therefore that they will be found sufficient for the guidance of the officers at the Cape. And they do not think it necessary to add anything to their former observations as to the expence of that department.

If Sir John Cradock should have any further observations to make respecting the serious inconvenience experienced from enforcing the restrictions under the charter of the East India Company, beyond those stated in the extract of his letter to Mr. Willimott of the 10th of December 1811, it would be desirable that he should communicate them with the least possible delay.

I am to add that the Lords of the Committee have referred to the East India Company the restrictions alluded to, with a request that they will communicate what may occur to them thereupon.

Letter from LORD BATHURST to SIR JOHN CRADOCK.

DOWNING STREET, 29th July 1812.

SIR,-Your letter of the 18th December last with the several returns of Imports and Exports into and from the Cape of Good Hope therein transmitted having been submitted to the consideration of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade, I herewith enclose the copy of a letter which has been received from Lord Chetwynd, dated the 28th Inst., by which it appears that their Lordships are satisfied that the measure which has been adopted by the Order of Council of the 1st October 1811 for restricting the Trade to the Cape of Good Hope to British Ships was requisite in consequence of the number of Foreign Ships employed in that Trade. I have, etc.