Freemantle, Richard

Grahams Town 15th March 1824
To His Excellency the Right Honourable General,
Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor, and _
Commander in Chief, Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
May it please your Excellency
The Memorial of Samuel Freemantle, humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialist who is _
incapable of performing any Kind of hard labour in consequence
of the Severe wound which he received by the Caffres, at the
time when his Much Lamented Father and Brother fell
a Sacrifice to their Savage ferocity) has a legacy Left
him in England which together with the interest upon it
amounts to about one hundred pounds Sterling ) to be
received on his attaining the age of 21 years, is now _
anxious to proceed to England in order to possess the aforesaid _
Sum, and return again to this Colony, to which he is greatly
attached from the healthy nature of its Climate; as also from
the circumstance of his having an only Brother remaining
in this country .
That your Excellencys Memorialist has no friend
in England whom he could safely entrust with the power of
possesion of any present means to take him thither, and therefore
he humbly prays that your Excellency will be graciously _
pleased to grant him a free passage to England in any of
his Majestys Ships, and your Memorialist will feel himself
in duty bound ever to pray _ S. Freemantle
Dr A. Smith in consequence of this misfortune returned
Memorialist as unfit for Service in the Albany Levy