Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1834. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government departments):

• Admiralty (Lord Sligo's reception, Belgravia; Blonde in respect of Belgravia; Lord Sligo's passage; latter appointed as vice admiral; passage of Lord Sligo; sailing of packet; costs of entertaining Lord Mulgrave; costs of same for tour; Bishop's passage; packet; magistrates' conveyance; mail conveyance by packet);
• Agent (Abolition Bill; requests interview; copy of Abolition Bill; representative of Assembly regarding Abolition Bill, Assembly order regarding labour from Germany and elsewhere; Assembly's petition of Merril; packet arrangements; future sailing of packets; trusts Missionaries Knibb and others may not be allowed at Jamaica; list of articles produced by colony; Missionaries Knibb and others; provision in proposed Act exempting vessels importing immigrants from tonnage duty; detention of mail; appeal from certain Compensation Commission rules; reply on emigration; emigration Bill; state of colony from accounts; communication of Agent's applications; mail detention; 'critical' state of island; correspondence between Burge and Rice, concerns with the Committee of Correspondence);
• West India Committee (alteration of packet; packet detention; change of packet system; mail detention);
• Commander in Chief (black prisoners in island; judge advocate general's remarks on courts martial held during late 'rebellion' of enslaved persons; satisfactory state of island, island allowances; Walsh recommended stipendiary magistrate);
• Council Office (leaving to its own operation Act 3089, Abolition of Slavery);
• Foreign Office (property of Swede named Feliander; instructions to British Consul at Havana regarding Slave Trade; British laws broken by American ship Mexicana);
• Home Office (James Brodrick recommended stipendiary magistrate);
• Law Officers (disagreement between Bishop and Rev Bowerbank);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (case of Mr Coulston tried for murder; reports trial, execution of Coulston; case of John Thorpe indicted for murder; case of enslaved person Edward Bennett tried for murder; complaint by Mr Evelyn against chief justice; reports on Acts separately bound {see CO 323/50]);
• Ordinance (accommodation stipendiary magistrates; head quarters of regiment at Maroon Town);
• Treasury (payment Mr Stewart for triennial returns; proposal of Messrs Atkinson and Hosier to transfer indentures of enslaved persons employed as pioneers to troops; Mr Mulgrave's bill for care and maintenance of shipwrecked Africans; advance to the Commissioners; island allowances; support of troops; property of late Robert Marshall; Mr Grenville's patent; Bishop's bills; wreck of Portuguese slave ship Heroina; hire of pioneers; Lord Mulgrave's passage; Mr Sweeney's passage; compensation for destruction of Baptist and Wesleyan chapels; colonial barrack expenditure; black pioneers; payments to magistrates; payment to stipendiary magistrates; maintenance of troops; King and Queen's portraits);
• War Office (table allowance; York's salary as private secretary; Chelsea pensioners volunteering into Police; pay Captain Connor);
• Baptist Missionary Society ('act of cruelty' upon member of congregation at Falmouth; Eclectic Review; statement of chapels destroyed; numerous correspondence on destroyed chapels; institution of marriage after abolition of slavery; donation request; supporting Alexander Openheim's application stipendiary magistrate; Rev Coultart's report on apprentice mal-treatment at Pedro Plains; statements on apprentice mal-treatment);
• Wesleyan Missionary Society (meeting at Colonial Office; Missionaries prevented from returning to Jamaica; numerous correspondence on destroyed chapels);
• Miscalleneous (Agent: sailing of packets; Commissioners of Compensation: confirmation of rules, proceedings of assistant commissioners in Jamaica; South American and Mexican Association: delayed packets).

Topics

International

Litigation

Labour

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Marriage and divorce

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Conflict

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Treason and rebellion

Navy

Crime

Disasters and emergencies

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns