HOPE. government may be immediately carried out; or that the eastern province may be CAPE OF GOOD formed into a separate and independent government, in conformity with the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry of 1824, above mentioned, and with numerous other petitions and memorials which have been subsequently transmitted from this and other districts of the province to Her Majesty's Government. And memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. (Signed) G. E. JOSEPH, and 136 others. No. 3. (No. 181.) COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir H. G. SMITH, Bart., K.C.B., MY LORD, to Earl GREY. King William's Town, July 24, 1851. (Answered by No. 689, September 19, 1851, p. 96.) I HAVE the honour to forward to your Lordship the enclosed petition, which has been transmitted to me by the Commissioners of the Municipality of Cape Town, who are desirous that it should be laid before Her Majesty the Queen. The Right Hon. Earl Grey, I have, &c. Enclosure in No. 3. Town House, July 17, 1851. SIR, The petition of the undersigned Commissioners for the Municipality of the city of HUMBLY SHOWETH, THAT your petitioners have learned with the utmost dismay from the Government Gazette of this colony, issued by the local Government of the colony on this date, that Your Majesty's servants have advised Your Majesty to confer legislative powers within this colony upon the eight individuals who, by virtue of their official appointments under the Crown, or by nomination of his Excellency the Governor, yet hold the office of members of the late Legislative Council. That Your Majesty's petitioners most earnestly entreat Your Majesty that a measure so utterly opposed to their just hopes and expectations, already so often laid by them before Your Majesty, may not be carried into effect. That Your Majesty's petitioners have the fullest confidence in Your Majesty's anxiety to rule in justice every portion of the extensive dominions committed to Your Majesty's sovereign authority. They submit humbly that the measures now contemplated by Your servants will utterly subvert the peace of the colony, will cause universal discontent, will raise throughout the colony the most extreme anxiety lest yet greater injustice be committed towards Your subjects; and they therefore pray Your Majesty to interpose between Your servants and the inhabitants of this colony, and to grant the colony, without delay, the representative form of government so often already entreated from Your Majesty; thus relieving them from the principles of despotism which characterise the present mode in which the colony is governed, assuring them in their affection to Your Majesty, and effectually securing to them that state of internal tranquility which has so often been jeopardised by the acts of Your Majesty's servants. And Your Majesty's petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Town House, City of Cape Town, HERCULES C. JARVIS, By order of the Board of Commissioners. Chairman P. J. DENYSSEN, Secretary. No. 3. Encl. in No. 3. CAPE OF GOOD SIR, HOPE. King William's Town, July 24, 1851. I AM directed to acknowledge the Governor's receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, transmitting a Petition for presentation to Her Majesty the Queen, and to acquaint you, for the information of the Commissioners of the Municipality of Cape Town, that his Excellency will forward this Petition to the Right Honourable Her Majesty's Minister for the Colonies. I have, &c. JOHN GARVOCK, I.t.-Col., Priv. Sec. P. Denyssen, Esq., Secretary to the Municipality, Cape Town. (Signed) Encl. in No. 4. No. 4. COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir H. G. SMITH, Bart., to MY LORD, EARL GREY. King William's Town, September 13, 1850. (Received November 6, 1851.) (Answered by No. 703, November 12, 1851, p. 97.) I HAVE the honour to forward to your Lordship a Petition addressed to Her Majesty the Queen by the Commissioners of the Paarl Municipality, and which was received at the Colonial Office on the 20th ultimo, under cover of a letter from Mr. J. J. Villiers A. J. Son, requesting me to forward it to England as early as convenient. The Commissioners pray that the operation of the recent " Additional Instructions" under Her Majesty's royal sign manual may not be carried into effect; and they submit that the measures now contemplated" will utterly subvert the peace of the colony; will cause universal discontent; will raise throughout "the colony the most extreme anxiety lest yet greater injustice be committed "towards Her Majesty's subjects," &c. 66 These vague assertions are unsupported by any proof of their correctness, and I believe they are wholly incapable of receiving such support; indeed I learn of many and various sources, on which reliance may be placed, that the effect of the publication of these "additional instructions" has been the restoration of confidence amongst the best disposed and most loyal portions of the community. The Right Hon. Earl Grey, I have, &c. (Signed) H. G. SMITH. SIR, To His Excellency Sir H. G. W. SMITH, Bart., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, &c. I HAVE the honour herewith to transmit to your Excellency a Memorial of the Commissioners of the Paarl Municipality to our Most Gracious Sovereign, adopted by them at a Special Meeting of Commissioners (at which meeting I did preside) held on the 27th instant, with a view to take into consideration the "Additional Instructions" published in the Government Gazette of this colony of the 17th July last, and to request your Excellency to forward it to England as early as convenient. I may safely add that this Memorial expresses the wishes of the great majority of the inhabitants of this division. Paarl, July 28, 1851. (Signed) I have, &c. J. J. DE VILLIERS A. J. Son. To Her Most Gracious Majesty. The PETITION of the Commissioners for the Municipality of the Paarl, Cape of HUMBLY SHOWETH, THAT your Petitioners have learned with the utmost dismay from the Government Gazette of this colony, issued by the local Government of the colony on the 17th day of July 1851, that Your Majesty's servants have advised Your Majesty to confer legislative powers within this colony upon the eight individuals who by virtue of their official appointment under the Crown, or by nomination of his Excellency the Governor, yet hold the office of members of the Legislative Council. Your Majesty's Petitioners most earnestly entreat Your Majesty that a measure so utterly opposed to their just hopes and expectations, already so often laid by them before Your Majesty, may not be carried into effect. HOPE. Your Majesty's Petitioners have the fullest confidence in Your Majesty's anxiety to rule CAPE OF GOOD in justice every portion of the extensive dominions committed to Your Majesty's sovereign authority. They submit humbly that the measures now contemplated by your servants will utterly subvert the peace of the colony; will cause universal discontent; will raise throughout the colony the most extreme anxiety lest yet greater injustice be committed towards your subjects; and they therefore pray Your Majesty to interpose between your servants and the inhabitants of this colony, and to grant the colony without delay the representative form of Government so often already entreated from Your Majesty. Thus relieving them from the principles of despotism which characterize the present mode in which the colony is governed, assuring them in their affection to Your Majesty, and effectually securing to them the state of internal tranquillity which has so often been jeopardized by the acts of Your Majesty's COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir H. G. SMITH, Bart., G.C.B., MY LORD, to Earl GREY. King William's Town, October 4, 1851. (Answered by No. 721, December 19, 1851, p. 97.) I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship, as requested by Mr. Lindenberg of Worcester, the accompany Minutes of a Meeting held at that town on the 26th of July last, regarding the "Additional Instructions' published on the 17th of that month. The Right Hon. Earl Grey, I have, &c. Worcester, August 19, 1851. SIR, A further report of the proceedings of the said meeting appears in the "Cape Town I have, &c. MINUTES of a Public Meeting held at Worcester on the 26th July 1851. Resolved, Pieter Jacobus de Vos, Esq., in the Chair. 1st. That this meeting has learned with feelings of the utmost surprise and alarm that the lately defunct Legislative Council, consisting of the members of the Executive Government and the two official nominees, Messrs. Cock and Godlonton, has, by virtue of the "Additional Instructions," under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, been invested with legislative functions, and fully authorized to legislate for this colony, aud that four members of the aforesaid Council do also possess the same power and authority. 2. That this meeting views the measure as being opposed to the general wishes of the people, injurious to the best interests of the colony, and calculated to cause universal discontent. 3. With feelings of profound loyalty and attachment to our virtuous Sovereign, this meeting has the fullest confidence that it is the anxious wish of Her Majesty to rule with justice over all Her Majesty's subjects. They however cannot refrain from expressing their opinion that, from self-interested, capricious, and despotic motives on the part of some No. 5. Encl. in No. 4. CAPE OF GOOD SIR, King William's Town, July 24, 1851. I AM directed to acknowledge the Governor's receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, transmitting a Petition for presentation to Her Majesty the Queen, and to acquaint you, for the information of the Commissioners of the Municipality of Cape Town, that his Excellency will forward this Petition to the Right Honourable Her Majesty's Minister for the Colonies. I have, &c. JOHN GARVOCK, Lt.-Col., Priv. Sec. P. Denyssen, Esq., Secretary to the Municipality, Cape Town. (Signed) Encl. in No. 4. No. 4. COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir H. G. SMITH, Bart., to MY LORD, EARL GREY. King William's Town, September 13, 1850. (Received November 6, 1851.) (Answered by No. 703, November 12, 1851, p. 97.) I HAVE the honour to forward to your Lordship a Petition addressed to Her Majesty the Queen by the Commissioners of the Paarl Municipality, and which was received at the Colonial Office on the 20th ultimo, under cover of a letter from Mr. J. J. Villiers A. J. Son, requesting me to forward it to England as early as convenient. The Commissioners pray that the operation of the recent "Additional Instructions" under Her Majesty's royal sign manual may not be carried into effect; and they submit that the measures now contemplated "will utterly subvert the peace of the colony; will cause universal discontent; will raise throughout "the colony the most extreme anxiety lest yet greater injustice be committed "towards Her Majesty's subjects," &c. These vague assertions are unsupported by any proof of their correctness, and I believe they are wholly incapable of receiving such support; indeed I learn of many and various sources, on which reliance may be placed, that the effect of the publication of these "additional instructions" has been the restoration of confidence amongst the best disposed and most loyal portions of the community. The Right Hon. Earl Grey, I have, &c. Enclosure in No. 4. To His Excellency Sir H. G. W. SMITH, Bart., Governor and Commander-in-Chief SIR, I may safely add that this Memorial expresses the wishes of the great majority of the inhabitants of this division. Paarl, July 28, 1851. (Signed) I have, &c. To Her Most Gracious Majesty. J. J. DE VILLIERS A. J. Son. The PETITION of the Commissioners for the Municipality of the Paarl, Cape of HUMBLY SHOWETH, THAT your Petitioners have learned with the utmost dismay from the Government Gazette of this colony, issued by the local Government of the colony on the 17th day of July 1851, that Your Majesty's servants have advised Your Majesty to confer legislative powers within this colony upon the eight individuals who by virtue of their official appointment under the Crown, or by nomination of his Excellency the Governor, yet hold the office of members of the Legislative Council. Your Majesty's Petitioners most earnestly entreat Your Majesty that a measure so utterly opposed to their just hopes and expectations, already so often laid by them before Your Majesty, may not be carried into effect. HOPE. Your Majesty's Petitioners have the fullest confidence in Your Majesty's anxiety to rule CAPE OF GOOD in justice every portion of the extensive dominions committed to Your Majesty's sovereign authority. They submit humbly that the measures now contemplated by your servants will utterly subvert the peace of the colony; will cause universal discontent; will raise throughout the colony the most extreme anxiety lest yet greater injustice be committed towards your subjects; and they therefore pray Your Majesty to interpose between your servants and the inhabitants of this colony, and to grant the colony without delay the representative form of Government so often already entreated from Your Majesty. Thus relieving them from the principles of despotism which characterize the present mode in which the colony is governed, assuring them in their affection to Your Majesty, and effectually securing to them the state of internal tranquillity which has so often been jeopardized by the acts of Your Majesty's COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir H. G. SMITH, Bart., G.C.B., MY LORD, to Earl GREY. King William's Town, October 4, 1851. (Answered by No. 721, December 19, 1851, p. 97.) I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship, as requested by Mr. Lindenberg of Worcester, the accompany Minutes of a Meeting held at that town on the 26th of July last, regarding the "Additional Instructions" published on the 17th of that month. The Right Hon. Earl Grey, I have, &c. Worcester, August 19, 1851. SIR, A further report of the proceedings of the said meeting appears in the "Cape Town I have, &c. MINUTES of a Public Meeting held at Worcester on the 26th July 1851. Resolved, Pieter Jacobus de Vos, Esq., in the Chair. 1st. That this meeting has learned with feelings of the utmost surprise and alarm that the lately defunct Legislative Council, consisting of the members of the Executive Government and the two official nominees, Messrs. Cock and Godlonton, has, by virtue of the "Additional Instructions," under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, been invested with legislative functions, and fully authorized to legislate for this colony, aud that four members of the aforesaid Council do also possess the same power and authority. 2. That this meeting views the measure as being opposed to the general wishes of the people, injurious to the best interests of the colony, and calculated to cause universal discontent. 3. With feelings of profound loyalty and attachment to our virtuous Sovereign, this meeting has the fullest confidence that it is the anxious wish of Her Majesty to rule with justice over all Her Majesty's subjects. They however cannot refrain from expressing their opinion that, from self-interested, capricious, and despotic motives on the part of some No. 5. Encl. in No. 4. |