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 1838 is bound separately [see CO 28/153]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (appointment of Major General Sir Evan Murray John McGregor as governor and commander in chief);
• Agent (his defence against accusations of 'oppression, injustice and cruelty of the Negroe Race' levelled at the proprietors and legislature of Barbados; recommends caution in accepting claim of cruelty to an apprentice made by Marquis of Sligo; lack of sufficient small denomination currency to pay wages; improvement of packet service; reports situation following termination of the apprenticeship system);
• Commander in Chief (increased barrack and hospital accommodation; case of eleven captured African women and thirteen children considered to be the property of the Crown and therefore entitled to barrack accommodation; restoration of hospital pavilion);
• Council Office (disallowance of Act No. 638; appointment of Henry Thornhill to Council);
• Foreign Office (British 'negroes' illegally detained in slavery at Texas);
• Law Officers (opinion on Act No. 655);
• Board of Ordnance (hospital accommodation);
• Treasury (memorial of Reverend William Birdsall, a Catholic priest, and Donald Sinclair, a solicitor, offering to give information about treasure alleged to be secreted in one of the West Indian islands in return for a reward or share; cost of transporting two military convicts to the UK; supply of small denomination coin; escheated property of the late Ephraim Potter; legislation to exempt alcohol imported for the use of the army and navy from payment of colonial duties; barrack and hospital accommodation; restoration of hospital pavilion; passage allowances for special magistrates; expenses of Auxiliary Commission of Slave Compensation; instructions to officer in charge of Commissariat to afford assistance to the governor);
• War Office (reinforcements of troops required at Halifax, Nova Scotia; application for half pay from Captain Adam Cuppage, judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal at Barbados)

Individuals:

• J Bezant (application for post of special magistrate);
• John Burke (seeks news of his brother-in-law Alexander Trotter);
• John Briggs (calls for the appointment of 'black' men to the legislature and magistracy);
• Mary Conlan and Margery Conlan (claim on the property of the late Thomas Corcoran);
• Lord Clements (seeks appointment for Mr Hutchinson, magistrate, in the Assistant Court of Appeal);
• C H Darling (seeks appointment as colonial secretary);
• Andrew G Drunan (invoice for 18 month's subscription to Barbados Globe newspaper);
• Thomas Downey (estate of Mr Corcoran);
• W Erle (recommends Mr Thomas Hull Terrell for a law appointment);
• Draft Colonial Office despatch to governor concerning request from Mr Hunt Grubbe for information about unappropriated lands in Barbados);
• John S Gaskin (requests extension of leave);
• Captain J Hamilton (claims of his nephew Commander Joseph Hamilton RN to be retained in office of stipendiary magistrate);
• Commander J N Hough (requests reappointment as stipendiary magistrate);
• Benjamin Ifill (requests extension of leave);
• T Morgan (property of the late Patrick James or James Patrick Corcoran);
• Augusta M Mathews (seeks further financial assistance in respect of the service of her late husband [see further correspondence in CO 28/121]);
• Archdeacon Thomas Parry (favourable reports from the islands);
• Charles Phipps (requests assistance or employment; recommends a measure for abolishing the United States slave trade);
• Lieutenant Colonel Reid (asks who was governor of Barbados in 1780 at the time of the 'Great Hurricane');
• Joseph Sturge (case of cruelty against an apprentice [with account of case of Robert Cox 'a poor hard labouring free black man');
• John Scoble (state of the gaol; attack on his character [with newpaper cuttings]);
• L Tierney (property of his late brother);
• Thomas H Terrell (application for appointment as attorney general);
• D H Wilson (requests assistance for John Thompson [see correspondence in CO 28/121])

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