CO48/42 National Archives, Kew, London  ~  1820 Settler Correspondence C-D

 

Transcribed by volunteers from the ZA-IB and ZA-EC Rootsweb mailing lists from digital photographs taken by Rowena Wattrus at the National Archives. The original correspondence is filed in order of receipt. Here it has been placed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the writer, with letters by the same writer in chronological order, for ease of reading. Original spelling has been maintained.

 

Letters were either addressed to Lord BATHURST, Secretary of State for the Colonies, (starting My Lord), or to his deputy Henry GOULBURN (starting Sir). Reference numbers, where given, refer to printed page numbers stamped on the letters and will enable visitors to the National Archives to locate the letter more easily. If a page number is not given then the date of the letter will give a good idea of its whereabouts in the file.

 

Names in red actually became 1820 settlers to South Africa, as listed in ‘The Settler Handbook’ by M.D. Nash, not necessarily with the Party listed here.

 

BAKER, George (Filed under C)

 

543-546

December 16 1819

My Dear GOULBURN,

                                    Pray do what can be done for the Bearer, who is the son of a man going to the Cape & who wishes to accompany him. I do not know what the difficulties are but I presume he can explain what he wants.

Yours truly

W. COURTENAY

 

[filed with the following letter from George BAKER]

 

Honoured Sir,

                        As my stay in England is but short, for expecting Mr. PARKER’s party of settlers for the Cape of Good Hope with whome I paid my Deposit will sail in a few Days whereby I find by a letter from one of Mr. PARKER’s Agents that mention is Made of not taking my son the Bearrer of this after arrangements is made and his name at the time entered in the list, since wich it has been cross’d out on acc’t of his not arriving by coach as [obscured by seal] as expected therefore I humbly hope your honor will be so good as wright or otherwaise communicate to Earl BATHURST to grant the Bearrer his passage as it otherwaise will be a great disappointment if he cannot goe with his parrents, I haveing sent for him from Newcastle in a journey wich has prevented him from obtaining some money now due to him there more perticulars he may inform your honour – therefore humbly trusting you’l take his case in consideration

I am with all due respect

Yr most obt svt

G. BAKER

 

BOARDMAN, Rev. William (Filed under C – see CO48/41 for further correspondence)

 

507

Blackburn 8th Nov 1819

Sir,

            I have this morning received a letter from Mr WILLSON of Bridge Cottage Chelsea requesting me to further to him my letters of orders, and testimonials without delay, which I propose to do after I have seen his Lordship the Bishop of Chester, with whom I am to dine this afternoon at the Vicarage.

            There are, it appears, many other candidates for the chaplaincy, and the appointment will be submitted to the consideration of the Secretary of State; a letter from you to him in my favour, may therefore perhaps be of service. You will, I know, excuse my importunity when I inform you, that, in a very few days, emigration or ruin must be my lot. I write the more urgently as I fear the party from Liverpool will not be suffered by our Government to go out: notwithstanding their respectable appearance it is to be feared that the conductors are little better than the swindlers. Such is my situation, and such are my prospects that I will thankfully accept of any office how[ever] small the enrolments; nay I am willing to go out as a private settler, and to earn a living by manual labour.

            Requesting most earnestly that you will lose no time in making intercession on my behalf with the Secretary or Mr WILLSON. I remain

Your much obliged and most gratefully

Wm BOARDMAN

 

P.S. I will keep this open until I have seen his Lordship.

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[Transcriber's comment:  This next part was added to the bottom of the second page of the above letter below a line draw across the page. Although it is clearly dated 9th April 1819, it is obvious from the context and placement that it was written the next day, so should have been dated 9th November 1819. William in his distressed state must have in haste written April instead of November.]

 

9th April 1819

 

I was detained at the Vicarage last night until the post was gone. His Lordship behaved to me in a friendly manner: nothing however can be done for me here in the Church unless I give up the [school?] I have therefore no hopes or prospect whatsoever in this Kingdom. It grieves me much to have lost a day in waiting for the Bishop. That you will not lose a moment in writing as above is my most earnest request: God grant that your application may succeed.

 

CABBELL, James

 

389

Broadwalk, near the turnpike gate

Frome, Somersetshire

Oct 4th 1819

Sir,

            I am a poor man have lost an hand but can work as well as many who are calld able bodied. I have made bold to adress you praying your Lordship to inform me if I can be allowd to proceed as a settler to the Cape of Good Hope. I am your Lordship’s most obdt hbl servant

James CABELL

*I am 34 years of age have a wife and two children. Lost my hand on board HMS Winzor Castle on the 28th Oct 1805. Receves a pension of 14 pounds per year.

 

CALDECOTT, Charles

 

193/194

13 Great Smith Street

Westminster

13 Aug 1819

My Lord,

            In consequence of the declared intention of Government to colonize the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave to submit to your Lordship the following statements. I have been liberally educated and brought up to the profession of a Surgeon. I was a pupil of the late Lt.Col. BLICKER and passed my anatomical studies under the instruction of Mr. ABERNETHY: I passed the Royal College 14 yrs ago and have been in practice in Town for nearly four years and in personal testimonials of my abilities and character I consider every way satisfactory through the medium of the most respectable references. But having a family of six children, and my means being slender when I first commenced practice in the Hampstead Road, I was unsuccessful in placing to myself such a practice as I had the most flattering expectation I sh’d have done, and which I most assuredly sh’d have accomplished if I c’d have commenced in the same neighbourhood. But failing thro’ want of means, my family has had to endure, for these last six months, the most severe privation and my situation at this time is truly distressing: under the circumstances I have ventured to solicit your Lordship’s kindness  to afford me your sanction in emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope as I am informed the whole of the patronage rests exclusively Yr. Lordship’s. I doubt not, was your Lordship fully [apprised?] of the whole of my case, your Lordship w’d most certainly take it into consideration; but lest I sh’d be tedious i beg leave to refer you to the Rt.Hon.N. VANSITTART, who is in full ?? of the same, with whom I have of late corresponded on different subjects, and from whom I rec’d the enclosed note yesterday in reference to the subject I have now submitted to your Lordship. I am well known to Mr. BLAIR of Great Russell Street [Surgery?] and whom I have no doubt w’d feel a pleasure in recommending me to Yr. Lordship’s notice. Waiting your Lordship’s pleasure

I have the honour to be My Lord

Your Lordship’s most obdt hbl sevt

Chas. CALDECOTT

 

[accompanied by above-mentioned note]

Downing Street

August 11 1819

Mr. VANSITTART presents his compliments to Mr. CALDECOTT and has to acknowledge receipt of his letter of the 10th inst and to acquaint him that as all the arrangements connected with the intended plan of emigration rest exclusively with Lord BATHURST, particularly the selection of individuals, Mr. VANSITTART could not feel at liberty to press upon his Lordship a request which would interfere so materially with the exercise of the discretionary power confided to him on this occasion.

 

402

 

13 Great Smith Street

Westminster

9th Oct 1819

My Lord,

            I humbly submit to your Lordship the following proposition and trust that your Lordship will be pleased to favour me with a reply as early as convenient and your Lordship will much oblige

Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant

Chas. CALDECOTT

 

PROPOSITION

Provided 50 or 60 families agree in a Bond of Friendship to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, to defray their own passage, and £10 or £20 each family in the hands of His Majesty’s Government, to be paid them again after the manner proposed in the circular, issued in respect to those lately sent out free by His Majesty’s Government to that Colony, would His Majesty’s Government give permission to such families (first submitting their names and vocation to the consideration and approving of His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonial Department) to proceed to that Colony and also grant them 100 acres of land for every such family depositing £10, and 200 acres of land for every such family depositing £20, subject to the same laws and colonial regulations as the grants given to those above mentioned.

 

CALDER, Daniel

 

426

Ledger Office

Warwick Square

Near Paternoster Row

Oct 15th 1819

My Lord,

            Having agreed to proceed to the Cape with a Company of Gentlemen who have been approved by Government for the purpose of establishing a Colony on that coast I humbly request the favour of being informed whether I can receive my pension or not in the new Colony. I presume my Lord that the assurances of my readiness to join any corps on proclamations being made to that effect will be deemed sufficient & that as I cannot get any employment in England I would feel much indebted to your Lordship to allow me to receive my pension in such manner as your Lordship may deem proper. Waiting for your Lordship’s reply previous to signifying my intention to the Register of Kilmainham.

            I am my Lord your Lordship’s most obedient servant

            Daniel CALDER

            Late Paymaster Serj 14th L Drag.

            A Pensioner at 9d per diem

 

434

Ledger Office

Warwick Square

18th October 1819

Honoured Sir.

                        In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 16th in reply to my application of the preceding date, I beg leave to state that that application does not crave leave to proceed to the new colony, but whether I am liable to be struck off the pension list being a pensioner at 9d per diem after a long service. I have already agreed with a party approved by Government to proceed consequently among the first who are intending to be conveyed to the Cape this year.

I am your most obedient servant

Daniel CALDER

Late Serj. 14th L Dr

A pensioner at 9d per diem

 

CALDWELL, Henry

 

122/124

38 Joiners Street

Borough

July 30th 1819

The humble petition of Henry CALDWELL humbly sheweth

Petitioner most humbly prays Sir Henry TORRENS KCB would have the goodness to peruse the following statement of truth and sincerity. Pet’r made all the applications to Colonel SALMON to get established labourer without effect. Pet’r is discharged with some hundred more from the Company warehouses for the want of trade, and has no prospect of getting on untill the Company’s shipping comes in next spring. Pet’r loses all hopes of my relatives in India of writing for me or yet recommending me for employment to the Hon’le Court of Directors. Pet’r most humbly implores Sir Henry would forward my petition enclosed to the Earl of BATHURST to get out to the Cape of Good Hope as a settler according to H.M. and the Government rules and regulations. And in duty bound petitioner shall pray

Henry CALDWELL

NB and grant the petitioner a few lines so as to get the inclosed passage

 

No.38 Joiners Street

Borough

July 30th 1819

My Lord,

The humble petition of Henry CALDWELL

Petitioner belonged nine years to His Majesty’s service, five years of the aforesaid time upon active service, and is discharged by the late reducement. Petitioner is out of employment and cannot obtain anything to do.

Pet’r aged 29 years and wife aged 24 years is desirous of going to the Cape of Good Hope as settlers. Conformable to his Majesty’s and the Governor’s rules there and regulations and binding ourselves thereto.

And as in duty bound petitioners shall pray

Henry CALDWELL

Late Gunner Royal Artillery

Pet’r most humbly awaits answer

 

458

No.5 Colliers Rents

High Street

Borough

Oct 24 1819

My Lord,

            I respectfully entreat your Lordship’s pardon for leaving your deplorable case before your Lordship.. of truth and sincerity from the hand of a humble loyal soldier. Petitioner belonged to H.M. service 9 years, 5 years of the aforesaid time in the peninsula & the continent, has been in 8 general actions and discharged by reduction, and has no pension – is both pennyless and has no employment. Rejected of being re-enlisted and has a undeniable character from the Army and since by Industry.

            Petitioner has a family and had disposed of my little furniture for the support of Nature: is not willing to violate the law – most humbly implores a passage to the Cape of Good Hope to be admitted as a laborer in any of H.M. yards, watchman or porter, abroad or at home as your Lordship judges most meet to the distressed and industrious.

And with my family shall pray

Henry CALDWELL

Major OWEN’s Company, 5th Batt. R. Artillery

 

CALLAN, Den Ross

 

87

6 Burford Terrace

East India Dock Gates

July 27th 1819

My Lord,

            When I solicited your Lordship to appoint me a Land Surveyor in Canada I was informed that settlement was amply supplied, but having now heard it is in contemplation of Government to encourage emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and that a Land Surveyor will be wanting there, I beg leave to intrude once more upon your Lordship’s consideration as the son of an individual, the late Lieutenant Governor ROSS of New South Wales, who feels he has some claim on the Government & more particularly your Lordship’s department.

            Should your Lordship deign to appoint me Land Surveyor at the Cape and grant me some portion of land there, my conduct will prove that such favour was not misplaced. I am my Lord with due deference

Your humble and obd’t servant

Den Ross CALLAN

 

126

6 Burford Terrace

Poplar

July 31st 1819

Sir,

            In my letter of the 27th inst i solicited Earl BATHURST to appoint me Land Surveyor at the Cape of Good Hope and now again I beg leave thro’ you Sir, to repeat it, convinced as I am that you are not inimical to those individuals whose claims on Government are well founded, conceiving mine to be indisputable I look up with some degree of confidence to the human disposition of his Lordship to enable me to settle in that colony by granting me the favor I so much solicit: and which if granted will always be acknowledged with the most lively sense of gratitude by Sir

Your very obdt hbl sevt

Den Ross CALLAN

 

CALLIGAN, Daniel

 

161

East Street

Lambeth

Surrey

4th August 1819

My Lord,

            Permit me humbly to solicit your Lordship to furnish me with a printed instructions concerning the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. It is my earnest desire to become a Settler there – and to take my wife with me. I have two children but they are at the Isle of France, therefore I have no incumberance, Your Lordship’s adhering to my humble petition will be received with thanks & gratitude by your Lordship’s devoted obedient servant

Daniel CALLIGAN

At the Bricklayers Arms

East Street near Kennington Cross

Lambeth

 

CAMPBELL, Charles

 

177-180

No. 3 Durham Place

Lambeth

10th August 1819

My Lord,

            Having seriously considered the disposition of embarking for The Cape of Good Hope, I have, as well as many others of respectability, hesitated in this determination only from the uncertain information of the intentions of His Majesty’s Government as regards the protection the Settlers will receive from the hostile interruptions of the Natives.

            Algoa Bay is too near that ferocious people the Kaffirs; a band of barbarians which can only be kept in awe by a superior military force.  The Settlers must have their minds at ease with full confidence that their property is safe and free from the attacks of the Natives or else little good will be done.

            Impressed with the truth of the above observations I am induced to submit a proposal for the consideration of the Executive Government and which I can with honor affirm is not suggested merely to advance my own personal interest, but while the measure is calculated so necessarily and materially to promote the general welfare of an infant Colony it will afford me the opportunity of pursuing my views in a character suitable to my Profession and to the rank I move in Society.

            From the conviction that it will be indispensably necessary to guard against the hostility of the Natives as well as to afford support to the civil authorities as a time of emergency some local military force will be required, I have taken the liberty to prepare to raise a regiment of infantry for this special service under which Corps I solicit the honor to embark as Colonel with the military appointment of Commandant of the Settlement but without pay or emoluments of such appointment [under?] the orders of the Commanders of the Forces and all official superiors at the Cape.

            In the event of actual war I only look to be considered entitled to the usual advantages of others of my rank employed at the time. I presume to observe that some officer of Rank and experience [would] necessarily be stationed at the place intended for the establishment of the Settlers and I am fully persuaded I shall be enabled to complete a Regiment upon the terms proposed ready to embark in less than three months.

I have the honour to be, My Lord,

Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant

Charles CAMPBELL

Major General

 

178

Proposal by Major General Charles CAMPBELL to raise a Regiment from amongst persons disposed to emigrate and from the Pensioners of the Army for this special service of the intended new Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope.

 

- The Corps to consist of 10 Companies each of 90 Privates with the usual Commissioned & Non Commissioned Officers &c.

 

- Ten men in each 100 to be Carpenters, Smiths, Masons, etc

(Remark:  No addition of Pay )

 

- The men to be between the age of 18 and 45 and a material proportion to be engaged from the Pension list of the Army.

 

- The men to be inlisted for the term of seven years – certain land to be allotted & the men allowed one day in each week to cultivate -  The wives and families as often as they please.

(Remark: It is calculated that one day in each week (or at that rate under the regulations of the office in command) with the continued aid and employment of their wives & families will cultivate as much land as will yield not only personal subsistence but will render parties tolerably independent at the termination of their respective service.)

 

-At the expiration of the term of service a certain number of men (in the proportion of the number sent from England to keep up the Establishment of the Corps) to be Discharged and an addition of land to what each party may have in cultivation to be granted in conformity to the original terms to Settlers

(Remark: Although it may not be deemed politic in the first instance to keep up the establishment of this Corps by Volunteers from persons liable to transportation for the minor offences, yet in a year or two it is humbly presumed that the small number about 100 yearly (& increased as may be judged proper) may safely be permitted to engage under certain conditions which measure would tend to ease in a considerable degree the heavy expense of more distant transportation.)

 

- In the event of foregoing necessity during Harvest and on other times, a certain proportion of the Corps may be employed to work for Settlers on which occasions sixpence is to be deducted from the daily pay of each man so permitted to work & to become a saving to the Public.

 

-The original Pensioners when discharged at the termination of service to be restored to their respective Pensions.

(Remark : This will assuredly encourage good behaviour holding out such prospect of becoming independent and providing for their families will ensure the most faithful discharge of duty and it is however proposed that their indulgence shall extend to those only who shall have conducted themselves meritoriously. Mutiny or Desertion shall render any one totally disqualified from favor )

 

- In order to the Corps being enabled to provide themselves with the usual necessaries an allowance will be required but only according to the following limits and scale viz.

·         For inlisting money – 1d

·         For Attesting – 1d

·         For Surgical Examination – 2d

·         For Printing attestations, stationary postage &c – 1d

·         For Levy money to be supplied for necessaries - £1.11d

TOTAL £ 1.17 each man

 

366

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

30 September 1819

Sir,

            I have to request you will be pleased to submit my name to Earl BATHURST to be permitted to proceed with my family to the Cape of Good Hope engaging to carry out at least Ten individuals above 18 years of age under the same conditions as other Settlers.

I have the honour to be Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

Chas. CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

398

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

7 October 1819

 

Sir,

            I beg leave to ask if His Majesty’s Government will consent to my proceeding with my family to the Cape of Good Hope taking with me from one to Thirty persons or families at my own Expense receiving an Allottment of land in the same proportion and under the dame conditions as will be granted to Settlers.  The only aid I require from Government is the permission to carry out a moderate quantity of necessaries and Implements of husbandry.

I have the honour to be Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

422

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

13 October 1819

Sir,

            I request to know to what number of persons or families it is the desire of Earl BATHURST the party which I propose to take out to the Cape of Good Hope shall be limited.

It would be a convenience to me to extend the number to Fifty.

I have the honour to be Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

 

438

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

18th October 1819

Sir,

            I had the honour to address you on the 13th inst requesting to know if Earl BATHURST had a desire to limit the number of persons or families which I have proposed to take to the Cape of Good Hope expressing my wish that the number first mentioned by me might be extended.

            With the view to afford a number of respectable persons the opportunity of joining my party & by which the expenses of transportation and other arrangements would be very much reduced, I have earnestly to request Earl BATHURST’s concurrence to my taking out with me a number not exceeding two hundred.

I have the honour to be

Your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

[Written by authorities on reverse side]

“What Genl CAMPBELL is this?”

Reply: He was upon the staff at Newfoundland and discontinued in the year 1816. Previous to his obtaining his present rank he was an inspecting field officer of a Recruiting District]

 

460

3 Durham Place, Lambeth

25th October 1819

Sir,

            Your letter of the 16th instant in answer to mine of the 13th leaving to myself to fix the number of persons I may take out to the Cape of Good Hope has induced me to make a very considerable selection; & I beg leave to ask if I have rightly understood that I have authority to carry out at my own expense whatever number may suit my own convenience.

I have the honour to be Sir your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

482

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

3rd November 1819

Sir,

            I had the honour of addressing you on the 25th ultimo to which I have not yet received any reply; and having made arrangements which have led me to a communication with Persons in the North of England and in Scotland I am at a loss how to proceed.

            I have therefore to request I may be informed if Earl BATHURST has any objection to my engaging with a considerable number of persons to go along with myself or to proceed to join me at the intended settlement at the Cape of Good Hope at a convenient season if too late this winter & when actually arrived that I shall have a grant of lands according to the terms and conditions granted to settlers, it being understood that the transport of all shall be without expense to the Public.

I have the honour to be Sir your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

497

10th November 1819

Sir,

            May I be permitted to solicit an answer to my letters, the tendency of which was to be informed if your letter of the 16th ultimo conveyed an authority for me to take out to the Cape of Good Hope a party of settlers not exceeding two hundred or whether it is Earl BATHURST’s desire that the party shall be more limited.

I have the honour to be Sir your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

541

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

15th December 1819

Sir,

            In consequence of the lateness of the year I find I shall not be able to embark for the Cape until the next proper season on which account I cannot furnish an accurate list of the persons whom I propose to take to the new settlement.

            It being of consequence to me that I should be enabled to send some confidential servants to take charge of my effects intended for immediate embarkation, I beg to be permitted to name three or four persons for this purpose, to one of whom I may give directions for the selection of a spot for the erection of habitations &c and that he may be allowed to have possession of land on my behalf, in proportion with the number of persons I send out.

I have the honour to be Sir your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

565

3 Durham Place

Lambeth

29th December 1819

Sir,

            I enclose a nominal list of the men I propose to embark immediately for the new settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. The first named (Cypress MESSER) on the list is appointed by me to obtain in my name and on my behalf a portion of land in which to commence the erection of habitations and the cultivation of the land; and I have to request from Earl BATHURST his special authority to the Governor for this purpose.

            I hope it will not be judged irregular that I should solicit a copy of the communication to be made to the Governor in order to my being the better to understand how to instruct the persons employed by me.

I have the honour to be Sir your most obedient humble servant

Chas CAMPBELL

M Genl.

 

CAMPBELL, Colin

 

330/331 (see also John CAMPBELL 2)

Kintraw

By Lochgilphead

7 Sept 1819

Dear Sir,

            The encouragement held out by Government to settlers who wish to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope has made a strong impression on the minds of several respectable persons in this quarter and is keenly enquired into by the lower classes, who are eager to engage in it, but they will never do so unless they have some leader under whose protection they would wish to embark. These men from their industrious habits are the fittest persons for establishing a colony in a distant quarter, and not the discontented clamorous weavers who would always be better within reach of the strong arm of Government to check their irregular proceedings. As a number emigrated from this quarter to British America (that are now very comfortable) when you acted as Government agent the people look up with great confidence to you for information respecting the views of the Ministry in peopling the Cape. Under this impression I take the liberty of addressing myself to you to request that you may have the goodness to transmit to me such information as may have come to your hands connected with this business, for the people in the Highlands will place more confidence in any explanation given by you than in all the newspaper information they would obtain for a twelvemonth. I have some thoughts myself of heading a party of emigrants if suitable encouragement should be given. My experience as an agriculturalist would I hope be of import to myself and others at the Cape, and my being in the commission of the [militia?] and holding a captain’s commission in the local force of this country would I think likewise be a recommendation. I therefore beg leave to subjoin a few queries which I trust you will have the goodness to obtain answers from the Foreign Office for my own and other people’s information.

I am with respect dear Sir

Your most obdt sevt

Colin CAMPBELL

 

Queries:

1 What encouragement would Government be inclined to give to a person heading a party of emigrants from the Highlands, for tho’ 100 acres is mentioned for each of the settlers there is nothing allotted for the person acting as their leader?

2 Would Government dispose of land near the Colony to a person bringing out emigrants and possessed of some capital? If so at what rate per acre?

3 At what distance is the proposed Colony to be established from Cape Town, and what is the name of the spot selected for the purpose?

4 As the present breed of sheep at the Cape are of the worst description, would Government furnish an improved breed on being paid the prime cost by the settlers? For wool it is probable may in process of time form one of the staple articles of exportation from the Colony?

 

CAMPBELL, Duncan

 

351/352

Portsmouth, Sept 28th 1819

My Lord,

            Wishing to avail myself of the offer of the Government to convey settlers to the Cape of Good Hope, I have to request your Lordship would be pleased to grant my application to be included in the number of those who proceed to the colony this year.

            I regret being so late in my application, but I hope your Lordship will be induced to extend this indulgence to me when I state that several of my friends and connections have succeeded in obtaining your Lordship’s permission to proceed thither, and it would be of great importance to us to go out together from the mutual support and assistance we should be able to render each other in overcoming the obstacles incidental to a new settlement.

            I lament the lateness of this application the more, as I could have procured, for your Lordship’s satisfaction, testimonials of my knowledge of agriculture and of my fitness for the situation of a colonist. Should your Lordship require any certificates of my general conduct and character, I shall have the pleasure in submitting several from officers of [?high?] rank, under whom I have had the honor of [?serving?]

            I have only further to state, that should your Lordship be pleased to grant my request, I could carry with me ₤1000 or ₤1200 Sterling, and ten labourers and mechanics of good character [agreeable] to your circular instructions.

I have the honor to be, my Lord, your Lordship’s most obedient very humble servant.

Duncan CAMPBELL

Capt. Royal Marines

 

353

List of persons accompanying Capt. D. Campbell to the Cape of Good Hope

 

 

 

 

 

Children

 

 

 

Settlers

Labourers

Age

Woman

Age

Boys

Age

Girls

Age

 

J. PRICE

40

M. PRICE

38

J. PRICE

12

M. PRICE

9

 

 

 

 

 

L. PRICE

7

 

 

D. CAMPBELL

M. WILLIAMS

36

E. WILLIAMS

36

W. WILLIAMS

8

S. WILLIAMS

7

CAPN ½ PAY

R. LOYD

35

A. LOYD

37

R. LOYD

8

J. LOYD

5

RL. MARINES

 

 

 

 

G. LOYD

7

 

 

 

L. MOORE

30

L. MOORE

40

L. MOORE

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. MOORE

9

 

 

 

J. CAMPBELL

40

M. CAMPBELL

35

 

 

 

 

 

J. THOMSON

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. MCINTYRE

36

J. MCINTYRE

30

J. MCINTYRE

6

L. MCINTYRE

5

 

S. SMITH

28

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. OWEN

25

S. OWEN

24

 

 

 

 

 

R. SMITH

24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Men

 

7 Women

 

8 Boys

 

4 Girls

 

Signed D. CAMPBELL

 

424/425

Portsmouth Oct 14th 1819

Sir,

            I beg to explain my not having sent to you before now the official lists of the persons I engaged to go with me to the Cape of Good Hope. I had procured them in Wales, contiguous to the port of embarkation, and having written to my agent there for an accurate description of them, I had the mortification to learn that from some prejudice they had drawn back from their contract.  I have since then been engaging men in this quarter, and hope to have the number completed by the end of this week, at the furthest, by the beginning of next.

            This obstacle being unavoidable, and totally unforeseen on my part, I hope you will have the kindness to consider it as a sufficient apology for this delay, which has given me infinite uneasiness from the fear that it might interfere with your arrangement, and consequently rule against my own prospects.

I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient very humble servant.

Duncan CAMPBELL

Capt. R Marines

 

432

Portsmouth Oct 18th 1819

Sir,

            I have the honor to forward to you lists of the individuals who have placed themselves under my direction to proceed to the Cap of Good Hope.

            I regret that they have been so long delayed from the unavoidable cause which I have already stated, and beg to express my gratitude for your kind indulgence.

I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient very humble servant.

Duncan CAMPBELL

Capt. R Marines

 

450

Portsmouth October 20th 1819

Sir,

            I had the honor of informing you that I was under the necessity of procuring men in this quarter to accompany me to the Cape of Good Hope, in consequence of those I had previously engaged, in Wales, having broken their contract.  I have now to solicit the favor of embarking my men at this place in the event of any of the vessels calling here; or (if none should call) at the port most contiguous from whence the vessels may be ordered to depart, as it could be the means of saving me a serious expense, and the women and young children much fatigue.

I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient very humble servant.

Duncan CAMBELL

Capt. R M

 

551

Portsmouth December 21st 1819

Sir,

            I feel great regret in being obliged to address you again respecting some changes in my party of settlers. On sending for them to embark I find that several of them are unable to fulfil their engagements; one from the dangerous illness of his wife, another from being seized by his creditors and another has been persuaded by his relations to decline going to the Cape and two others from unavoidable causes. I have supplied their places by the same description of persons, substituting man for man &c so that the list remains the same as before as to number and age, the only difference being the change of name. They are arrived here and are ready to embark the moment your permission is obtained for this alteration. I have the honour to be Sir

Your very obedient humble servant

D. CAMPBELL

 

List of Persons declining to go to the Cape with Capt. CAMPBELL

Jas. PENNY 25 Martha PENNY 25

John BROWN 28  Elizabeth BROWN 26  dau Eliz’th

Jas, TURNER 40

Chas. BRUSHWOOD 24

John SMITH 30

J. YEARMOUTH 12

 

Total Men 5

Total Women 2

Children under 14  2

Total 9

 

List of Persons ready to accompany Capt. CAMPBELL in the room of those left behind

Chas. JORDAN 26  Martha JORDAN 25  Chas. JORDAN 3

John LITTLEFIELD 40  Mary LITTLEFIELD 38

William LOVELOCK 40

J. KIMMISH 19

John LITTLEFIELD 18

Chas. LITTLEFIELD 13

 

Total Men 5

Total Women 2

Children under 14  2

Total 9

 

559

Portsmouth, December 24t 1819

Sir,

            In compliance with your directions in your note of the 23rd inst I have the honour to send herewith the letter addressed to the Governor of the Cape.

            I beg again to express how grateful I feel for the indulgence  you have shewn me. I have the honour to be Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

D. CAMPBELL

 

CAMPBELL, Henry

 

291

September 8th 1819

My Lord,

            I am a clergyman residing in the Parish of Minchinhampton, which parish as well as the adjoining ones is full of weavers and other persons engaged in the manufacture of woollen cloth. The cloathing trade is at present at a very low ebb, nor is there probability of its being any better, which fills this neighbourhood with great distress. I have recommended to many poor people accepting the very liberal offers made by government of sending settlers to the Cape of Good Hope and many of them are very desirous of availing themselves of going there. But as I do not know the details of the plan of Government as to sending them out I cannot satisfy the people. I should feel much obliged if I could have the exact plan of Government in this business transmitted to me that I might make it more extensively known. I also subjoin the names and descriptions of those persons who are desirous of being sent out and beg to know whether they are of that kind which Government will approve of.

I am my Lord with great respect

Your Lordship’s most obed’t sevt.

Henry CAMPBELL

 

Names & Descriptions of persons desirous of being sent to Cape of Good Hope & the ages of their children

Enoch DYER aged 36, weaver, has wife & seven children viz: boy 18 boy 15 boy 13 boy 10 girl 8 girl 6 girl 3

George OCKFORD, weaver, has wife and three children, boy 16 boy [age obscured] boy 7

Charles PHILLIPS, haymaker, has wife & an infant girl

James ADAMS, weaver, has two children, girl 14 girl 7

John SIMS has wife and two infants

James EDWARDS, aged 26, has wife & infant

Rolfe? GARDINER, single aged 18

Abraham PHELPS, single aged 18

James WHEELER, single aged 18

Matthew GARDNER, barge builder, aged 27, has wife and infant

Thomas BEARD, weaver, aged 39, has a wife & five children viz: girl 16 girl 14 boy 11 boy 7 boy 6

 

In case these or any of them should be thought eligible I shall be glad to be informed by what ship & when they may sail.

 

341

Minchinhampton

Gloucestershire

Sept 27th 1819

Sir,

            I return you many thanks for your prompt & very kind reply to my former letter concerning emigration & for the papers you had the kindness to enclose for me.

            There is a subject however I wish to trouble you upon. A blacksmith has applied who I think a very proper person to go out but he wishes to know if he may take out his tools. He can do nothing without his bellows and anvil which are heavy & cumbersome. If they are purchased at the Cape they must be first sent out from England therefore he might (I presume) as well take them as buy them there. Other mechanics such as carpenters, weavers &c wish to know if they may take their tools. The next point is whether they will be permitted to take household furniture & if they are permitted which furniture and what quantity of bedding seems necessary.

            The next question is at what [port] nearest to this neighbourhood may people from hence embark. Bristol would be very convenient as all goods could go down the river whereas they must cross Wiltshire and Hampshire to go to Portsmouth. I presume no money will be allo[ted] from Government for the carriage of the goods & themselves to the port. I am convinced that a transport at Bristol would be highly desirable as there are a number of persons from hence wishing to go who are detered from the distance to a probable place of embarkation such as Portsmouth, Plymouth or the Downs.

            Government very properly wishes one of the emigrants to act in the name of the rest & to him the grant of land will be made at the rate of 100 acres for each family, but is it intended that he may keep all the land to himself if he so pleases & employ the other families as his labourers, or will he be obliged to divide the land with them at 100 acres to each family. Can he prevent them from becoming proprietors & oblige them to be merely his servants?

            Is it necessary that the person to act in the name of the rest should be a person of property sufficient to make him responsible or will one of the same moneyless sort as the generality of them do merely to be the organ of communication with Government. How are the Emigrants to obtain tools for cultivating the land, may they take them out with them? If so what will be necessary for them to take?

Your most obed’t

Rev’d Henry CAMPBELL

 

CAMPBELL, James

 

223

Aug 18th 1819

The petition of James CAMPBELL of Warren Point, County Down, Ireland

Most humbly sheweth

That your Lordship’s pet’r was bred to agriculture and mentained a large family decently in that line of life – but that on acct. of his three eldest sons entering into His majesty’s service (the two eldest of whom fell in the late war with France) and other losses he sustained in his course of business he was forced to give up his favourite employment (farming) and is now endeavouring to support his remaining family (3 sons and 1 daughter) by teaching a small school. Pet’r therefore most humbly casts himself on the clemency of His Majesty’s Government and prays your Lordship to order a passage (free) for him and his family to the new colony at the Cape of Good Hope, and pet’r is willing to enter into any legal engagements that may be required to assure His Majesty’s Government of the repayment of any extra expence attending the transporting of his s’d family as he at present cannot command any mony to deposit according to the publish’d documents. Pet’r further saith that he can and will satisfy your Lordship of the truth of his statement if required, by vouchers from the War Office and certificates or affidavits

And your pet’r as in duty bound will pray

Jas. CAMPBELL

Warren Point

Down

Ireland

 

CAMPBELL, John (1)

 

3

Inverness

16th June 1819

My Lord,

            Intending with several of my neighbours to proceed as settlers to His Majesty’s Colony in the Cape of Good Hope, I take the liberty of addressing your Lordship with reference to the terms held out to emigrants by the Government as contained in a printed letter sent from the Colonial Office in answer to queries on the subject.

            The exact number of intending settlers is fourteen, who with their wives and children will make in all about seventy souls. These fourteen settlers, or fathers of families, are each of them ready to pay down to any person appointed to receive the same, Ten Pounds Sterling, being the pledge required by your Lordship, and on the conditions of repayment as specified in the letter.

            They are willing to undertake the cultivation of whatever grant of land that may be allocated to them under the usual conditions and have already become all bound to that effect. “The Tonnage will be provided for the Settlers” and it is presumed at the expence of the Government?

            With reference to the victualling, the enactment of the Act 43rd of the King cap.56 seem all to relate to settlers proceeding to North America; for tho’ the inductive clause of the act refers to “His Majesty’s Colonies” without particularizing any, yet the special provisions point out those colonies for their object and no other. The writer is unaware of any other statute. And the parties may therefore perhaps store themselves without regarding the statute.

            Your Lordship’s letter bears that the expence of victualling the settlers will be defrayed by themselves. The Applicant is ignorant whether Government will procure the stores and make the emigrants pay for them or whether they will be allowed at the sight of Government to provide them in such a manner as they please, or whether Government will advance them stores on credit of their deposit of £10?

            Providing your Lordship grants the terms the settlers will be ready to embark from any point in the parish of Strath, Isle of Skye, where they now reside, on the shortest notice. Some months ago the Chief Magistrate of Skye published that Government was resolved to give a free and victualled passage to every settler that would go to the Cape. Incited by this seemingly official intelligence about nine hundred people gave up their farms, sold of their stock and waited – and still wait for the fulfillment of these splendid prospects.

            By this cruel or mischievous story the greater part of this body wander about without home or means to get one. Among them are the present applicants for your Lordship’s favour. They have had the foresight of securing their £10 from the shipwreck of their effects, but unless they are timeously removed necessity will compel them to use even this money, and their misery will be then consummated. Trusting however that your Lordship will readily stretch forth your hand on their behalf, I for myself and them with all humility and respect remain my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obt & most hbl sevt

John CAMPBELL

Kyleakin

Skye

By Lochalsh Nth

 

476

Kilmuir

Isle of Skye

1 Nov 1819

Sir,

            In consequence of the encouragement offered by His Majesty’s Government to persons wishing to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. F.H. McKENZIE of Kyle Auken in this country and I jointly did ourselves the honour in Sept’r last thro’ the medium of Colonel Sir Colin CAMPBELL to propose to your Lordship that we should, agreeable to the conditions stated in your Lordship’s circular letter on the subject, procure a considerable number of settlers from this country to the new Colony at the Cape of Good Hope.

            As Mr. McKENZIE and I are now perfectly unconnected in this concern I have on my own account procured fifty heads of families agreeable to a list & abstract herewith transmitted who are willing to accompany me as their leader to the intended settlement and who will be ready to embark how soon instructions for that purpose will be issued by your Lordship and as all men are in the immediate neighbourhood of the Bay and harbour of Portree it is to that port as the most convenient for embarkation we would request a transport to be sent.

I have the honour to be my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obd’t servt

Jno. CAMPBELL

PS Please address me by Portree

 

472

Kilmuir

Isle of Skye

1 Nov 1819

Sir,

            In consequence of the encouragement offered by His Majesty’s Government to persons wishing to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope. I took the liberty of writing you in September last mentioning that a Mr. ?. McKENZIE of this country and I had procured a considerable number of settlers for the intended colony and soliciting your influence on our behalf. I now beg leave to trouble you with this and to inform you that Mr. McKENZIE and I are now perfectly unconnected in this concern, and that I have on my own account procured fifty five heads of families who have agreed & are willing to accompany me as their leader to the new settlement. My people are of the best description for forming an infant colony, being all loyal, many of them are already trained to arms and excellent workers – they would be a great [obscured] to a new establishment and very different indeed from the disaffected rabble of great towns. [?Some?] days past I transmitted a particular list of their names &c to Lord BATHURST and mentioned Portree as the most convenient place for embarkation, that they would be ready to embark how soon information for that purpose were issued by his Lordship & requesting a transport might be sent for them.

            I must once again beg and earnestly [ask?] your friendship and good offices in strengthening my proposal & application of which I will retain a grateful sense till the last gasp. In giving a description myself to Earl BATHURST I mentioned my being appointed Lieut. in the Breadalbane Fencibles and since an officer in the Isle of Skye Volunteers & Local Militia till the conclusion of the war as also possessing a farm of considerable extent on Lord McDONALD’s Estate. My whole dependence is entirely upon yourself and a disappointment will to me & my family be a terrible loss.

Sir, your most obed’t and most humble servant

Jno. CAMPBELL

 

476/478

Name and description of the persons taking out settlers:

John CAMPBELL, Lieutenant in the late Breadalbane Regiment of Fencible Infantry in His Majesty’s Commission dated 9th Dec’r 1794. Since the reduction of said Corps served as an officer in the Isle of Skye Volunteers and Local Militia till the conclusion of the war and at the same time possessed a farm of a considerable extent upon Lord McDONALD’s  estate. Aged 48

Isabella McRAE 33 wife

Children:

Mary Jessy 12

Madalena 11

Alexandra 9

John Farquhar 8

Isabella 5

Colin Nicol 3

James Charles 1

 

Names of Settlers

Profession or Trade

Age

Names of Women

Age

Male Children

Ages

Female Children

Ages

Alex’r MacDONALD

Farmer

46

Mary MacDONALD

40

 

 

Catherine/Anne

12/10

Sam’l MacDONALD

Farmer

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rich’d? MacDONALD

Farmer

18

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugh MacDONALD

Farmer

28

Marg’t MacDONALD

24

 

 

Marion/Flora

4/2

Angus MacDONALD

Farmer

29

Anne MacLEOD

28

Donald/John

8/6

 

 

Hugh MacDONALD

Farmer

23

Mary MacPHERSON

25

 

 

Mary/Rachel

Ann/Marion (sisters)

6/4

16/13

John MacNAB

Teacher

40

Cathrine MUNRO

40

Andrew/Neil

4/inf

 

 

William MacNAB

Farmer

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mal’m MacLEAN

Farmer

28

Marion MacDONALD

28

Angus/Mal’m/Hugh

5/3/inf

 

 

Peter McINTOSH

Farmer

56

Ann MARTIN

40

 

 

Christian/Cathrine

17/12

John McINTOSH

Farmer

22

Sally McINTOSH

21

Jas./Don’d

4/2

Betty

10

George MUNRO

Farmer

32

Sally NICOLSON

30

John

6

Flora

8

John MacDONALD

Farmer

38

Margt MATHESON

34

Arch’d/Angus

15/10

Cathrine

7

John MacDONALD

Farmer

22

Anne MacDONALD

20

Don’d

4

Anne

1

Alex MacDONALLD

Farmer

18

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mal’m McKENZIE

Farmer

50

Christ’n McLEOD

46

 

 

Ann/Flora

13/10

Alex McKENZIE

Farmer

25

Jannet McKENZIE

23

John

4

Jannet

6

Sam’l NICOLSON

Farmer

30

Catherine McKENZIE

25

Rod’k

5

 

 

John McKENZIE

Farmer

22

Flora MacLean

20

Iver

4

 

 

Nor’d McKENZIE

Farmer

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mat NICOLSON

Farmer

47

Euphemia NICOLSON

38

John

13

Anne

10

Don’d NICOLSON

Farmer

21

Marg’t NICOLSON

24

 

 

Cathrine/Flora

3/2

Don’d McPHERSON

Farmer

25

Catherine STUART

25

John

5

Euphemia

3

Matt BUCHANAN

Farmer

26

Meirion MacDONALD

22

 

 

Mary A/Anne

5/4

John BUCHANAN

Farmer

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jas. McDONALD

Farmer

22

Marian McDONALD

23

Donald

1

 

 

Murdo McLEOD

Farmer

45

Margt CAMPBELL

30

Rod’k

2

Catherine

12

Alex McLEOD

Farmer

30

Ann McLEOD

30

Neil

5

Christian

7

?? McLEOD

Farmer

48

Mary McLEOD

36

John

10

Mary

12

Samuel McLEOD

Teacher

26

Ann McLEOD

24

Neil

4

Ket

2

Rod’k McLEOD

Farmer

20

Mary McLEOD

21`

 

 

Mary/Margt

2/1

Arch’d McLEOD

Farmer

36

Mary BEATON

30

Donald

5

Cathrine

8

James McDONALD

Farmer

24

Mary McDONALD

23

Ewen

2

 

 

Mal’m McDONALD

Farmer

24

Mary McDONALD

22

 

 

 

 

John McINTYRE

Farmer

48

Jannet McNAB

45

James McINTYRE

15

 

 

Alex McINTYRE

Shoemaker

25

Dorothy McINTYRE

22

 

 

 

 

John McINTYRE

Farmer

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alex CAMERON

Farmer

30

Cathrine McLEOD

25

William

5

Joan

3

Alex CAMERON

Farmer

26

Margt McLEOD

24

Alex

Inf

 

 

John MATHESON

Taylor

45

Flora MORISON

32

Alex

5

 

 

John McLEAN

Farmer

40

Christ’n McDONALD

40

Nor’d

13

Sally

8

John ROSS

Taylor

35

Mary Campbell

25

Angus

7

Marion

11

Murdo ROSS

Farmer

27

Peggy BEATON

27

Peter

5

Nell

3

Alex CAMPBELL

Farmer

58

Marian McKIERNON

48

Murdo/Don’d

12/7

Emily/Cathrine

13/10

James CAMPBELL

Farmer

24

Mary NICOLSON

18

 

 

 

 

John CAMPBELL

Farmer

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm CAMPBELL

Taylor

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm NICOLSON

Farmer

30

Ann CAMPBELL

22

M.C./C.C.

4/2

 

 

Malcolm CAMPBELL

Farmer

26

Bell Nicolson

24

 

 

 

 

Angus NICOLSON

Farmer

58

Catherine BUCHANAN

39

John/Don’d/Alex

17/13/7

 

 

Angus BEATON

Farmer

40

Cathrine ROSS

35

John/Donald/

Malcolm/Peter

11/7/4/2

Cathrine

Inf

Ewen McLEAN

Farmer

35

Ann McDONALD

30

Donald

6

Margt/Mary/Effy

8/4/1

Angus McDONALD

Farmer

40

Mary McQUEEN

34

Donald/Malcom

11/9

Marian/Cathrine/

Mary/Christian

13/7/

4/1

Andrew MUNRO

Carpenter

28

Mary NICOLSON

25

 

 

 

 

Donald MUNRO

Shoemaker

24

Cathrine McDONALD

23

 

 

 

 

 

CAMPBELL, John (2)

 

130

Edinburgh

31st July 1819

Sir,

            I have observed in one of our public prints a paper stated to belong to an official circular, dated Downing Street July 1819, mentioning in detail the terms on which His Majesty’s Government propose to encourage emigrants proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope. From the complexion of this paper I have not doubted that it is authentic and some enquiries have been made here about it.

            I should think it very probable altho America for a course of years has been more especially the object with Highlanders that when the subject & nature of the country shall be more fully brought under their view that persons both in the Highlands & in the Low Country of Scotland will embrace the opportunity now offered. For in truth there is much distress especially among manufacturers, chiefly weavers, many of whom had at some period of their lives been employed in agriculture.

            In case such should come forward in numbers is it probable that Government would make some port in Scotland a rendezvous and if shipping shall not be provided there, would any allowance be made for transporting from the nearest port in Scotland where they could find shipping to the Thames or where else in England they may embark.

            It has been said that the Taxes at the Cape are less favourable for the settlers than in the British provinces in America. Is there intended any immunity or temporary relief for settlers at the Cape in regard to Taxes? I have the honour to be with great respect

Your most obedient humble servant

John CAMPBELL

 

252

Easdale Slate Works

Argyllshire

31st August 1819

 

Sir,

            On my way hither upon the business of these works in which I have a joint concern with Lord BREADALBANE, I had the honour of yours of the 12th inst, which followed me to Glasgow.

            I have taken occasion to mention to the Magistracy of that City and to several respectable individuals, landed proprietors and others, the terms resolved upon by Government on which settlers might proceed to the Cape of Good Hope with a view of gathering information how far there appears an inclination in these countries for emigration to that quarter. So far as I could find, altho’ the subjects are as yet little known, there has been discovered a preference by some to the Cape and at Glasgow it has been stated by some that several are seriously thinking of it, whereas in other cities local attachment has less influence. I have been in this country spoken to by a respectable gentleman farmer possessed of some property who has this project under serious contemplation.  

            I think I shall be able to collect in a short time more particular information for whenever it shall have become a topic of general communication in this narrow circle – it will not spread rapidly. I find that in the manufacturing districts the distress from want of employment is by no means exaggerated in the public prints, but here as in other countries where agriculture is the chief object there is very little complaint.

            I am to send a few copies of the circular to different persons in these districts, but I presume to think that more publicity might be given by advertising in the Scotch prints or some of them. If this is the wish of Earl BATHURST will you have the goodness to mention which of the two circulars is to be adopted or if both are to be inserted.

            I observe that in case of compliance with the terms of Government that transports will be provided for conveying the settlers from the ports that may be found most convenient for their embarkation. I am with great respect Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

John CAMPBELL

If you shall be pleased to write in the course of one or two posts a letter will reach me sooner than via Edinburgh by addressing George ?JONES? Glasgow

 

326 (see also Colin CAMPBELL)

Edinburgh

24th September 1819

Sir,

            I had the honour to address you from Easdale the 31st ult. Since that time I had some communications with various persons on the subject of emigration to the Cape but the subject had, tho’ under the consideration of several people who came under my notice, yet had not been a general topic of enquiry, nor had they distinctly understood what were the terms held out my His majesty’s Government. For they have sagacity enough not to trust in vague reports by newspapers unless regularly authenticated by persons in whom they have some confidence or knowledge of.

            Having shewn to Mr. Colin CAMPBELL of Kintraw in Argyllshire the papers communicated by you, he took them under consideration and I had some interesting conversation with him, and the result from himself is inclosed in a letter dated 7th September. As on the former occasion with regard to Canada I gave no opinion but left him entirely to his own judgement. Mr. CAMPBELL is an expert gentleman farmer upon the estate of Lord BREADALBANE and of Lt.Gen. Duncan CAMPBELL of Lochnell. He understands thoroughly the rearing of cattle and sheep and has applied himself to husbandry and various kinds of agriculture, and is of an enterprising mind, active and intelligent in every respect and highly respectable in his line. For gentlemen farmers on Great Highland Estates form a sort of ?third? aristocracy and are persons of authority to whom the people look up. In the hebrides such as Lord McDONALD’s country they are the only aristocracy and are very frequently Justices of Peace, for there the people look no higher except occasionally than the head of the Clan.

            Mr. CAMPBELL was for several years Manager of the extensive Easdale Slate concerns and I had occasion to see him in that line extremely intelligent and very fit for enterprise where he might head a number of his countrymen, and he is justly popular. He is acquainted too with general business and expert in accounts, and I know no person fitter for such an undertaking, for the Highlanders are attached to him and he to them, and yet he is a man of authority and general good principles & of honour.  Indeed altho’ I know his property does not exceed £2,500, for he had suffered in the hard years before [obscured] this little purse and his extensive farm gives more influence and consequence than is possessed by proprietors of £500 to £700 a year in the same district. I have no hesitation in recommending Mr.CAMPBELL as an acquisition to any colony, if he shall determine to emigrate after being satisfied with the terms and receives satisfactory answers to his queries.

            Mr. CAMPBELL is married to the daughter of a highly respectable landed proprietor and he is nephew to the Collector of Customs at Fort William. I must also mention that he had a company in the 5th Batt. Argyllshire Volunteers of which he had the honour to be commandant. His age about 46.      

            I observe that several are ?concerned? at the idea of the residence of the emigrants being at such a distance from Cape Town, and it has been also said that in that quarter there is a scarcity of water, and that the inhabitants have been reduced to great difficulties for want of this inestimable blessing.

I am with great respect Sir

Your most obed’t and very humble servant

John CAMPBELL

 

CAMPBELL, John A

 

219

10 Panton Square

Piccadilly

18th Aug 1819

My Lord,

            I trust your Lordship will excuse the liberty I take in requesting to be informed if it is in contemplation to send a medical gentleman to the colony about to be established at the Cape of Good Hope. Should such be the intention of Government I beg to offer myself for such service and I hope that having served His Majesty upwards of twenty years abroad will be deemed sufficient to entitle me to a preferment to such a situation.

I have the honour to be my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obd’t sevt

John A. CAMPBELL

 

CAMPBELL, Peter

 

452

29 Great Marlborough Street

22 Oct 1819

May it please your Lordship

Your Lordship’s memorialist Peter CAMPBELL Surgeon humbly begs leave to state that having made arrangements to proceed as a settler to the Cape of Good Hope in the party of John BAILIE Esq of Manchester Buildings, he should feel most happy to render himself professionally useful on the voyage or after the arrival of the settlers.

I have been for ten years a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and a resident in Great Marlborough Street, St. James’s. I am a “perpetual pupil” at the Royal Institution of Dr. PEARSON Physician to St. Georges Hospital, of Mr. CARPUE Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery, of Dr. THYNNE Lecturer on Midwifery, and in the years 1809 and 1810 I was surgeon pupil at the Middlesex Hospital from which as well as from the above professors I have the usual testimonials.

I have served His Majesty for nearly 4 years in the Royal Artillery and I trust my character will bear the strictest investigation. My object my Lord most respectfully to beg leave to introduce myself to your Lordship’s notice, and should His Majesty’s Government or the interest of the colony require the number of my professional exertions I feel myself ready on all occasions to [pro]mote the interest of both; and faithfully to discharge any public duty with which I may have the honour of being intrusted.

I have the honour to be my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obedient and humble servant

Peter CAMPBELL

 

491

No.3 Lambeth Butts

Surrey

Nov 5th 1819

My Lord,

            I am one of those proceeding as colonists to the Cape of Good Hope. A few days ago I had the honour of addressing a note to your Lordship stating the outlines of my certificates of qualifications as a surgeon, man-midwife and chemist and now most respectfully beg leave to submit to your Lordship’s consideration the inclosed testimonial of character which I trust may operate in my favour should a vacancy for a surgeon exist in any of the transports proceeding to the intended colony.

            Your Lordship’s condescension to confer this favour might materially serve me as I have a heavy family and such an appointment would afford me an early opportunity of introducing myself professionally to a portion of the settlers.

            In conclusion my Lord I beg leave to request that this document may be returned as it may probably be of service to me on a future occasion.

I have the honour to be my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obedient and humble servant

Peter CAMPBELL

 

CAMPBELL, Robert

 

140

Providence Row

Finsbury Square

London

3 Aug 1819

Sir,

            In absence of Mr. WATTLEWORTH who had the honour of addressing you lately & who received from you a copy of the regulations to be observed by those intending to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave now to trouble you for some further information on the subject. Mr. WATTLEWORTH & myself having made up our minds to take out to the Cape at least twenty families & only wait instruction from you how to proceed – we are at a loss what kind of people to engage, whether they should be all Agriculturalists or if other Mechanics could not be beneficial? And as Government reserve to themselves the right of choosing those people who go out can it not be ascertained who will be accepted before they come to London, as it is expensive bringing people from a distance in the country if they are afterwards rejected.

            As we are very anxious to get as many as possible I have the money ready as soon as we shall be called upon to deposit it according to the rules laid down by Government. Would be particularly obliged by your giving us as early instructions as possible ?confirming? our views.

I have the honour to be Sir

Your obd’t sevt

Rob’t CAMPBELL

 

176

5 Providence Row

Finsbury Square

Friday 10th August 1819

Sir,

            As my partner Mr. WATTLEWORTH & myself have engaged twenty men to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope we shall be particularly obliged by your giving us our interview in order to close the business & receiving further instructions necessary on the subject.

I have the honour to be Sir

Your obd’t sevt

Rob’t CAMPBELL

 

CAMPION, Jasper

 

320

Hanover Street, Cork

21st Sept 1819

My Lord,

            Being a young man possessed of a small capital & having assurance of considerable property in some time, I should feel great pleasure in going to the Cape of Good Hope as a settler. I would be most thankful if your Lordship would inform me thro your Secretary of the means to be used.

            Being second son to a clergyman of this city, now deceased, I was reared for the army; recommended to His Royal Highness the Duke of York by Lieut.Gen’l Lord FORBES I received a promise of a Commission but peace being established shortly after blasted my prospects as to obtaining a commission in His Majesty’s Army, which is the very height of my ambition.

            If your Lordship would grant me any situation at the Cape I could receive recommendations from the first families in the County & City of Cork & should be found a truly faithful servant.

I beg pardon for troubling your Lordship but with every respect I remain

Your Lordship’s humble & most obedient servant

Jasper H? CAMPION     

 

CANNING, Henry

 

301

Exeter

Sept 11th 1819

My Lord,

            I beg leave to be informed if a number of people going out to the Cape of Good Hope on their own expense have to make any deposit to Government or not as there are 50 in this place going out and cannot afford to lay their money out but to the best advantage as their little capital will all be laid out in necessaries save a trifle for to buy things at the Cape. Your answer to me will very much oblige.

Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant

Henry CANNING

 

CAPE, William

 

181/182

10th Aug 1819

Sir,

            I beg leave to hand enclosed letter from my worthy friend the Rt. Hon. Lord Mayor which will partly explain my wishes – I should inform you that His Lordship had not time or opportunity to go so fully into my little history or I am sure he would have done so. Having a family of 8 children, viz:

William CAPE aged 13 at Hall Place Academy, Bexley

Richard CAPE 12 at ditto

John CAPE 10 at ditto

Henry