West India Miscellaneous, 1844, Offices and Individuals : Index; Address; Memorandum; Treaty; Returns; Correspondence; Financial document Apr 1837; Nov 1843 - Sep 1845.

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Other

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English

French

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Speeches.

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1 online resource.

Language Note:

English; French

Summary:

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (postponement of next contract mail packet [two items], alteration in routes of the mail service); Board of Trade (complaint of Messrs Robinson concerning import duties on salted or cured meat); Foreign Office (detention of Barbadian in slavery at Suriname, slaves found on board Texan vessels captured on the coast of Brazil may be taken to Trinidad or Demerara, detention of British subjects in slavery at Cuba, report on British subjects detained in slavery at Cuba for the guidance of naval officers, forwards papers relating to the slave trade as submitted to the House of Commons [not in item], forwards proposition of the Swedish Government relating to the emancipation of slaves at St Bartholomews); Treasury (return of appropriation of sums voted in 1842 for stipendiary magistrates); West India Committee (recommends that a census of the West Indian colonies should be taken, asks for packet to be delayed so that it may take out the result of the petition to the House of Commons relating to sugar duties); Mico Trustees (remarks on Mr McSwiney's claim to an appointment). Individuals: D St Andre (forwards four reports from the French colonial minister on the subject of slavery [not in item; sent to Colonial Office library]); Thomas Clarke (enquiry about Hodgson Hemer who went to the West Indies in 1771); Sir Howard Douglas (forwards letter from Messrs Robinson & Girvin about the import duty on salted or cured meat); Sir George Grey (Mr McSwiney is in error as to assurance having been given relating to the permanency of his appointment); Thomas Hankey & Company (census of the West Indian colonies should be taken); J Le Chevalier (presents his work on the abolition of slavery [in French; enclosures not in item; sent to Colonial Office library]); John McSwiney (requests appointment in consideration of his past services, thanks for promise to consider the request when the opportunity presents itself); Lieutenant Robert McClure, superintendent of liberated Africans at Havana (archives of the superintendency have been received, Mr Turnbull's explanation concerning the archives, requests supply of stationery and official seal, forwards copies of correspondence with the governors of British Guiana and the Bahamas and with Colonel Fancourt relating to the sending of liberated Africans to their governments and with Mr Turnbull relating to the imperfect state of the archives, acknowledges receipt of Parliamentary reports, reports reception on board the Romney of Daniel Kelsall released from slavery and reports detention in slavery at Cuba of several British subjects, his request for stationery, has not as yet had any liberated Africans under his charge but when he does they will all be sent to Jamaica, quantity of stationery he requires, copy of his letter relating to the emigration of certain individuals from Cuba to Jamaica); Count St Aulaire (forwards letter from Le Chevalier requesting information to complete his work on the colonies [in French]). Bound at the end of the volume are various Colonial Office circulars and memoranda relating to Chinese emigration, the treaty of Washington providing for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, request that censuses of population should take place in each West Indian colony on the same day as the Jamaica census, proceedings for asserting the title of the Crown to certain property, treaty between the UK and Texas for the suppression of the African slave trade, leave of absence for ministers of religion, establishment of a penal settlement, salaries of governors' private secretaries in various islands.

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/161.

CO 318.