Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations...

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1827 is bound separately [see CO 28/147]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (appointment of John Alleyne Beckles to be judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, governor's passage to England, Treasury brig at Barbados, bishop's request for naval hospital at English Harbour Antigua to be converted to 'a place for the performance of divine service');
• Agents (request for meeting to discuss consolidated slave legislation with remarks on the acts of 1825 and 1826 and related correspondence, legislation to encourage baptisms and marriages among the slaves, forwards address of condolence from Barbados Assembly on the death of the Duke of York, forwards letter from Assembly relating to excise legislation,);
• Commander in Chief (governor's passage to England);
• Council Office (acts passed to Board of Trade [details of legislation not given], reference to letters concerning legislation sent to Barbados in original);
• Board of Trade (states that legislation concerning the salaries of the treasurer and other officials is now obsolete);
• East India Office (Reverend Mr Parham);
• Law Officers (opinion on question of the removal of 'domestic slaves' from British colonies);
• James Stephen, legal adviser ('smuggling' of slaves by Mary Jeffrey and Dorothy Coxale, constitution of Court of Grand Sessions, administration of oaths to military recruits, case of Dennis Murray of the Royal York Rangers found guilty of a misdemeanour);
• Treasury (payment for hire of schooner Perseverance, passages of bishop and archdeacon within the diocese, petition from Mr Isaac Leattod regarding the Spanish brig Maria Dolores seized by customs officials, erection of church buildings, petition from Reverend R C Thomas for payment of salary, costs of attorney general in preparing eight bills for the amelioration of the condition of the slaves, case of Dennis Murray of the Royal York Rangers found guilty of a misdemeanour);
• War Office (power to enlist and attest recruits to 1st West India Regiment, imminent requirement for new governor).

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Colonial Registry Office (reports that duplicate registry of the increase and decrease of the slaves in Barbados has been received);
• Captain King (has forwarded despatch to Barbados).

Individuals:

• Anne Allen (petition for passage to join her husband serving with the 25th Regiment of Foot in Barbados);
• Robert Aberdeen (reports exports of slaves contrary to law);
• J A Beckles (acknowledges appointment as judge of Vice Admiralty Court);
• Thomas Butterfield (has arrived at Falmouth and will proceed to London with his family, arrival in London);
• John Coulsten (petition: has received remission of remainder of period of imprisonment but claims that governor has no power to remit fine and that he therefore remains imprisoned for non-payment);
• Major Delhoste (expenses as private secretary to the governor);
• Denis Murray (petition for remission of remainder of imprisonment and fine [with copies of testimonials]);
• Thomas Murray (memorial of Messrs John and Henry Moore concerning rejection of their tender to supply beef for troops at Barbados);
• C Martindale, New York (concerning his petition in favour of 'a Mustee Girl of the name of Kellikelly, otherwise Betsy Christian, improperly sold into Slavery in the Island of Barbados');
• J W Orderson (forwards pamphlet on the education of the poor [not in item];
• Lord Redesdale (forwards letter from H E Sharpe stating his claim for appointment as attorney general);
• Richard Walden (states that as an enslaved person he was sold from Barbados to Demerara in 1809, suffered ill-treatment, escaped in 1814, and now resides in Boston [USA]; he wishes to return to Barbados and petitions the secretary of state for his freedom).

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