Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Removal of liberated Africans from...

CO 318/153

1841

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Removal of liberated Africans from Cuba. Correspondence from Mr Turnbull, superintendent of liberated Africans at Havana, and the Foreign Office. Subjects covered are as follows: Mr Turnbull:

• armed tender to be added to the Romney;
• will communicate to Lieutenant Fitzgerald on the subject of armed tender;
• case of schooner Charles accused of contraband practices in Cuba;
• case of William Jones and others rescued from slavery and sent to the Bahamas;
• copy of despatch sent to governor of Jamaica relating to crew of the schooner Plover sunk in the Gulf of Florida;
• case of Henry Shirley kidnapped and sold into slavery;
• expense of postage to which British consul at Havana is liable;
• case of the boy Wellington and his release from slavery;
• request for Mixed Commission to enquire into case of Gabino;
• case of British subject Fontanales rescued from slavery;
• growing trade of British colonies with Cuba;
• sanitary regulations of harbour of Havana as applied to British colonial commerce;
• Wellington said to have been given up to Mr Hardy;
• further on case of Henry Shirley;
• restoration of the boy Wellington;
• case of Fontanales kidnapped at Sierra Leone and sold into slavery at Havana;
• explanation of his debt to Mrs Stephen;
• further respecting case of Henry Shirley kidnapped at Jamaica;
• further respecting case of Emancepado Gavino;
• United States views on Cuba;
• capture of Spanish schooner Jesus Maria with 240 slaves;
• measures adopted to send his despatches following loss of the packet ship Spey;
• his defence of tradesmen employed to supply liberated Africans;
• sanitary regulations at Havana;
• further respecting Africans landed from slaver Jesus Maria;
• expense of removing liberated Africans;
• Spanish schooner Segunda Rosario captured by HMS Cleopatra and condemned by the Mixed Commission Court;
• sailor charged with stealing blankets from liberated Africans;
• convoy for the Meg Lee transport;
• forwards certificates of emancipation of Africans captured in the Jesus Maria;
• announces return of Mr Everett to the United States;
• states that the liberated Africans of the Segunda Rosario have been disposed of and reports mortality and disease among them;
• arrival of Don Geronimo Valdez the new captain general of Cuba;
• requests information as to privileges of certain classes of Africans in British colonies and the case of Pancho;
• defence against imputations of the British commissioners relating to the mortality among the victims of the Jesus Maria and the supposed death of the assistant surgeon of the Romney;
• account of his first audience with the new captain general;
• certificates of emancipation of Africans from the Jesus Maria;
• seeks special instructions for the disposal of liberated Africans detained at Havana after the departure of their companions and refers to a Honduras case;
• disposal of Africans from the Jesus Maria and the Segunda Rosario;
• expected excess of males in future importations of liberated Africans;
• acknowledges receipt of despatch and other documents from Mr Madden which he has placed among the archives;
• affair between the Romney guard and certain Spaniards on shore;
• great movement in Cuba in favour of suppression of the slave trade;
• further on case of the Segunda Rosario;
• whether a foreign slaver can be legally seized in a Spanish port by a British cruiser [two letters];
• apologises for not sending duplicates and referring to Foreign Office;
• seeks instructions as to slaves imported into Cuba from New Providence by the late Mr Forbes and free 'people of colour' imported from Jamaica by Hector Mitchell;
• enquiry about his outfit and salary;
• British 'negroes' from Barbados enslaved at Suriname;
• Henry Shirley's freedom restored;
• states that no more liberated Africans can be sent to Honduras;
• establishment of a competition for liberated Africans;
• future disposal of liberated Africans;
• asks to be acquitted of charges brought against him by the British commissioners in the case of the Jesus Maria Africans;
• instructions not to send Africans to Nevis;
• emigration of 'negroes' from Spanish to British colonies;
• alleged deportation of free people from Jamaica by Hector Mitchell;
• has sent a circular to West Indies governors relating to future disposal of liberated Africans;
• his defence against Jesus Maria charge;
• refusal of captain general to give up James Thompson of Bahamas;
• acknowledges receipt of notification of Lord Stanley's appointment;
• slaves taken from Bahamas to Havana by Mr Forbes;
• 'negroes' from Bahamas held in slavery in Cuba by Mr Forbes;
• copies of correspondence with governors about future disposal of Africans;
• certificate confirming execution of his duties.

• assault by Spaniard on Romney soldier;
• tonnage duties on vessels carrying liberated Africans;
• Turnbull's correspondence as superintendent and consul to be kept distinct;
• agrees with reply to Turnbull concerning Jesus Maria slaves [two letters];
• annual report of commissioners for 1841;
• opinion of attorney general that British cruisers may not capture foreign vessels in a Spanish port;
• Mr Kennedy's accusation that Mr Turnbull took a bribe from the master of the Meg Lee.

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