Brown, John

To the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst &c. &c. &c.
The humble Memorial of John Brown, and John Stubbs
Sheweth
That your memorialists being possessed of a small Capital
which they are unable to employ with such advantage as will secure to their respective
Families either Subsistence or the means of giving them such an
Education as they consider necessary to their future Success in Life have directed
their serious attention to the liberal Proposals of His Majestys Government
as contained in the Circular Letter to Persons desirous of emigrating
to the Cape of Good Hope
That availing themselves of considerable information they have been able to derive from Persons who have been settled at the Cape and maturely reflecting at the same time on the difficulties which must naturally attend such an
Enterprize, they have resolved to form a Partnership Concern and beg leave
respectfully to solicit such assistance as His Majestys Government have determined
upon granting.
Your Memorialists humbly submit for your Lordships Approbation the annexed list of the Names and such other particulars as they consider important
of the Individuals they have engaged on their proposed Undertaking.
That deeply impressed with the responsibility they take upon themselves
your Memorialists beg to state that their humble Endeavours shall be
faithfully exerted to second the Wise and Beneficent Intentions of his
Majestys Government by securing to the Individuals under them every
comfort their situation can possibly admit. They have used every Measure to
make themselves acquainted with the different Characters of these Individuals
and venture with much confidence to assert that they will be found
ready to defend with their Lives the Colony whenever the Government
may think their Services can be of Utility in repelling any Attack Thereon
Your memorialists will with Gratitude accept whatever Station may
be assigned to them, but being ardently anxious to combine the pursuits
of the Agriculturalist and Fisherman they respectfully hope your
Lordship will not deem them presumptuous in soliciting every facility

for this purpose that can be granted them consistent with the of other settlers and the public interest of the Colony.
That your memorialists are ready to answer any interrogations on the nature of their plans and to give every facility to any enquiry on their characters your Lordship may direct to be made as well as to fulfil every condition under which assistance can be granted to settlers, whenever permitted so to do, and they entreat permission further to represent that some of the families they have engaged are at present in great distress and anxiously waiting such communication as the honour of your Lordships reply will your memorialists to make them.
We have the honour to subscribe ourselves
My Lord
Your Lordships most obedient humble servants
John BROWN
John STUBBS
48 Kenton Street, Bloomsbury, 10th August 1819