West India Miscellaneous, 1840, Individuals : Address; Report; Returns; Financial document; Memorial; Legal document; Acts and Legislation; Index; Memorandum; Order; Public notice; List; Correspondence Jan-Dec 1827; Sep 1838 - Feb 1841.

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Other

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Speeches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Language Note:

English; French

Summary:

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from individuals on matters relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: D St Andre, French Consulate General (two letters enquiring after fate of certain named persons, sends legal documents for forwarding [all in French]); Major E Archer (detailed remarks on Colonial Passengers Bill); Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (forwards pamphlet written by Joseph John Guney on 'the present condition of the negroes in the West Indies' [copy of pamphlet not in volume]); W Brooks (forwards resolutions of a meeting of the Church-State Civilization and Colonization Confederacy and requests an interview to discuss colonisation [with detailed Colonial Office minutes concerning emigration from the West Coast of Africa to the West Indies]); Cox & Company (requests certificates in respect of governors' salaries [7 letters]); Thomas Clarkson (forwards memorial addressed to Queen Victoria from a 'convention of friends of the Slave assembled from various parts of the World for the purposes of promoting the immediate, entire, and universal abolition of slavery and the slave trade' held in London in June 1840); D R Clarke (applies for the post of superintendent of liberated Africans at Havana following Dr Madden's resignation); Lieutenant Lionel Fitzgerald, HMS Romney (suggests means of putting down the slave trade carried on at Cuba); T C Grattan, British Consulate, Boston (forwards letter from R T Edghill asking how an application for compensation for loss of slaves should be made and seeks such information for his own use when other similar enquires are made to him); William Huttmann (forwards printed plan for 'civilisation of liberated negroes' drawn up by the Liberated Negroes' Civilization Society); John Kewley (details of imports at Liverpool); J A Kentish (forwards printed copy of an 'introductory letter' addressed to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton 'on the frightful horrors of modern slavery as practised by the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association in their mines at Gongo Soco'); Dr Meikleham (complains of Dr Madden's conduct towards him); Sir Moses Montefiore (thanks for attention to request for leave of absence for Dr Madden [two letters]); J S Mill (encloses some notes by 'a German' on the cultivation of sugar [covering letter only]); L Ranken (plan of colonisation and emigration); John Stikeman (requests samples of sugar soils with a view to making a chemical examination of them, thanks for specimens of sugar soils from St Vincent, thanks for specimens of sugar soils from Barbados); A Stewart & Westmorland (asks if it is possible to recruit 'free Africans' at Sierra Leone for agricultural labour in Jamaica); David Salomons (requests on behalf of Sir Moses Montefiore an extended leave of absence for Dr Madden in order than he may accompany Sir Moses to Syria); Margaret Stephen (requests assistance in recovering a debt due to her from Mr Turnbull before he leaves England for Havana, reports that he has paid the debt); Colonel Trench (asks for date of death of Charles Ferdinand Bentinck former governor of Suriname); Walter Wallace (concerning certain property). The volume also contains, bound at the end, Colonial Office minutes on the stipendiary magistracy in the West Indies and on colonial legislation. There are also Colonial Office circular despatches on: instructions to ordnance officers, duties on British goods and manufactures imported into the West Indian colonies, small pox in Barbados, appointments to public office, leave of absence for officials, expenses of sending military convicts to England, payment of advances out of the military chests, Treasury rules concerning incorporation of banking companies in the colonies, hiring of labourers and occupation of lands following the abolition of apprenticeship, doubts concerning application of clause 61 of the Mutiny Act to troops serving in the colonies, extension of steam communications, legislation extending to the colonies an Act for regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, interim arrangements for carrying the mails, security to be required from persons in temporary charge of offices of pecuniary trust, expenses incurred for the maintenance of liberated Africans, Treasury regulations concerning casual expenses for ordnance services, regulations concerning accounts of expenses incurred for the maintenance of liberated Africans, appointment of responsible officers to find employment for liberated Africans as required.

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/148.

CO 318.