Anonymous

His Excellency the Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope
May it please your Excellency to
excuse the liberty of a Settler a lover of Peace and.
Loyalty in addressing your Excellency about the comforts
of us residing in Albany under your protection
There is a man here amongst us who possesses a
Small degree of tallent which he abuses in a way I believe
unusual in a New Colony. If any person has a
offence with his Neighbour, he foments the difference and
persuades the party to have recourse to Law and thereby gives
a great deal of trouble to the Magistrates and gain to himself
he charging them for his writing and not content with the
trouble he occasions here he likes then to Memorialise
Your Excellency and think causes much trouble to Your
Excellency and a further increase of gain to himself for he
charges so much per sheet which he by fine words increases
to a great length as Your Excellency must well know
as scarcly a Post leaves this Place without many of his
Compositions being, forwarded as Your Excellency must have
observed from the sameness of the writing and style it is
not fair for he can by his Language give a plausibility
even to an act of injustice
May it please your Excellency to afford relief
& I would most humbly suggest that you would be
pleased publickly to make known that a petition in the
petitioners own hand writing & diction would be more acceptable
than those dictated & wrote by others
I have the honor to be
Your Excellency Most Hum Servt.