Despatches from Acting Governor William Smith (items 1-15) and Governor Sir William...

CO 37/82

1823

Despatches from Acting Governor William Smith (items 1-15) and Governor Sir William Lumley (items 16-29) as well as letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from officers and individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects for offices and individuals are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (punishment of persons harbouring or encouraging deserters from British naval ships, food to be provided to convicts on arrival at Ireland Island, rations of convicts on hulks in England, duty on American imports, conveyance of Sir William and Lady Lumley, detachment for duty in the Dockyard and on the Antelope, employment of convicts on naval works);
• Home Office (printed copy of 'An Act for authorising the employment of labour, in the Colonies, of male convicts under sentence of transportation', dismissal of proposition to send convicts to Sierra Leone and Upper and Lower Canada rather than Bermuda);
• Navy Office (conveyance of Sir William Lumley);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (lack of law for punishing persons harbouring deserters from British naval ships, Governor and Council's appropriation of certain duties, dispute concerning the issue of a proclamation, action taken by Governor Lumley against Churchwardens Basham and Till, 1775 Act regulating the payment of the clergy and for the letting of pews);
• Treasury (payment of the Governor Smith's private secretary).

Individuals:

• Adlington Gregory & Faulkner (action against Sir William Lumley for alleged arrest and false imprisonment of churchwardens);
• T Butterfield (escheated land in the town of Hamilton);
• Coylts & Co (William Smith's salary);
• Edward Ellice (sends statement of complaint and petition from certain inhabitants of Bermuda against the governor, case of John Till);
• Fownes & White (case of James Till and John Basham);
• James Holland (requests an interview);
• Robert Kennedy, Colonial Secretary (case against Provost Marshal regarding debt of escaped prisoner);
• Daniel Leonard (enquiry of his daughter and friend concerning an objection to the sum granted him by the Treasury);
• R Lushington (reasons for lateness of his application);
• J G Palmer (sends papers concerning Bermuda [not included]).

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Topics

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Trade and commerce

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Rationing

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa