Wentworth, William

To His Excellency The Right /
Honble Gen\l./ Lord Charles Henry Somerset, /
Governor 7+ Commander in Chief of the Colony /
of the Cape of Good Hope 7+c. 7+c. 7+c. /
The humble Memorial of William Wentworth most /
humbly 7+ respectfully, /
Sheweth, /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist came into /
this Colony with the Party of Settlers under the superintendance /
of the late M\r./ William Clarke. /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist has since his /
arrival, by industry 7+ perseverance, aided by the constant 7+ /
paternal solicitude evinced by your Excellency for the /
general and individual interests of the British Settlers /
arrived at a great degree of comfort and local stability, but /
which would be greatly enhanced should your Excellency /
consider Memorialist deserving of that consideration, as to /
grant him a loan of One Thousand Rix dollars, to be laid out /
in stock, and for which your Excellency’s Memorialist /
is prepared to give good 7+ ample security. /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist, in making /
this request is aware of the large Sum of Money which /
has been contributed by a generous public for the relief of /
distres+sed British Settlers in Africa, but as he considers such /
contributions to have been obtained under false pretenses /
and that no such distres+s and misery exist as to call forth /
such an exercise of public philantropy and benevolence in /
this regard, he feels compelled to decline accepting pecuniary /
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assistance from a fund which has been created by such /
palpable misrepresentations /
In conclusion Your Excellency’s memorialist trusts /
that his character 7+ conduct upon the strictest /
Scrutiny, will shew that Memorialist is not /
undeserving your Excellency’s consideration . = /
Graham’s Town /
2nd October 1824 /
W Wentworth /