Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (ship for conveying emigrants from Sierra Leone, use of cocoa for the Navy);
• Agents (payment of member of Council John Losh's fees, Secretary Mr Turnbull's half salary, late Marshal Mr Hodgkinson's salary, two spy glasses and six despatch boxes for the government, orders for a printing press, surcharge against Sir C Smith);
• Commander in Chief (crowded state of the barracks);
• Privy Council Office (confirming an ordinance for encouraging immigration, allowing an ordinance for emigration from Africa, copy of ordinance regulating the harbour of Port of Spain);
• Board of Trade (cultivation of cotton and tobacco, opinion on ordinance regulating the harbour of Port of Spain);
• Home Office (report on gaol rules, observations on the Police Ordinance);
• Ordnance (barrack accommodation, proposed use of old barracks as a convalescent station, issue of hospital supplies, repayment to Lieutenant Heyland for the gaol expenses of a soldier);
• Treasury (exemption of carriages carrying troops' supplies from tolls, surplus revenue, provost marshal's salary, Mr Carter's reappointment as Superintendent of the Manzanilla settlements, payment of stipendiary magistrates, admission of supplies imported in open boats from the Spanish Main, payment of Customs duties, remittance of duties on goods for the Catholic Church, Commissioners of Audit queries on the accounts of late Counsul at Granville A White, sum voted for the lieutenant governor's salary, use of Manzanilla Fund to aid new schools, surcharge against Sir C Smith, escheated property of J Malick);
• War Office (effect of bad state of the barracks on the health of the troops, administration of Sir G Hill's estate, fees improperly levied on the property of two deceased soldiers);
• African Civilisation Society (requests copy of order relating to apprenticing Africans liberated by the Slave Trade Abolition Treaties for one year);
• Excise Office (no objection to Pedlar Ordinance);
• Land and Immigration Office (disposal of waste lands, mortality among European emigrants);
• Geological Society (acknowledges enquiry regarding earthquakes).

Individuals:

• Durant Andre, French Consulate General (enquiry regarding Dr Delphin Courbe) [in French];
• Miss Bridin (asks for Captain Gray's address);
• William H Burnley (cultivation of cotton and tobacco, petition respecting sugar duties, requests interview concerning emigration);
• Cox & Co (Sir McLeod's half salary);
• J Carter (requests reinstatement as superintendent of Manzanilla settlements);
• Sir Robert Campbell (Mr Bradfield's memorial respecting his removal from office);
• Maria Eaton (attestation of certain documents);
• Mrs B E Gray (solicits her husband's re-employment);
• Thomas Hinde (memorial against the Town Council Act);
• A L Harris (wish to rent Cocoa Tree Beach Estate);
• Hawkins & Co (address of power of attorney);
• Edmonstone Hodgkinson (payment of his pension, resigns appointment as marshal, salary due to him);
• Lewis Johnston (requests compensation due to the abolition of his office of first puisne judge, requests salary increase, notes he may not reach the colony before his leave expires, retirement due to reduction in numbers of judges);
• John Moore (enquiry regarding the property of his brother Daniel who died in 1822);
• J Marryat and others (emigration from Africa to the West Indies);
• A McGregor (memorial from 48 planters in Glasgow concerning emigration to the West Indies from Sierra Leone);
• Charles Marryat (requests copy of Glasgow memorial concerning emigration);
• A McGregor and Charles Marryat (emigration from Africa, request passports for their vessels);
• E Protheroe (memorial from planters and merchants in Bristol concerning emigration to the West Indies from Sierra Leone);
• Sir J R Reid (memorial from the colony relative to the rank of the governor);
• George Scotland, Chief Justice (claims to employment under judicial arrangements);
• John St Hill (encouragement of cocoa cultivation, use of cocoa in the Army and Navy);
• John Slater (requests investigation of the circumstances under which the purchase of his manumission from slavery was refused);
• John Turnbull (enquiry regarding his salary);
• Arthur White (enquiry regarding his salary);
• William Wilson, master of the Princess Charlotte (his arrival bringing the prisoner Thomas Hanlan accused of murder on the high seas).

Topics

Government finances

International

Labour

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Treaties and alliances

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Food and drink

Navy

Crime

Forestry

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa