Neave, Joseph

Liverpool Sepr. 11th 1819
My Lord,
An application having
been made to your Lordship on my behalf
by my friend Chas Stoker DUDLEY Esqr for one
of those grants of Land about to be given to those
persons who wish to become Settlers at the Cape
of Good Hope, I have in consequence received through
him) from your Lordships office, a circular desiring
the names, ages &c of those I intend taking out with
me. I therefore presume to become troublesome
by requesting to know if a delay for a few days
in forwarding that list, will be injurious to my
hopes of obtaining that grant _ I might have
made out many lists from the numerous applications
to be taken out, but I am anxious to have
a little time in order to obtain characters to those

I engage with _ May I likewise beg to be informed
if it be necessary that Mrs Neaves name should
appear in the list, as she will not leave this Country
under two years, owing to our having some family
affairs to arrange _
I beg to state to your Lordship that I am
30 years of age and that until I was 17 was with
my father, then a considerable Miller, & Farmer in
the South of England, since which period I have
principally been in Banking Houses in which
employment I now am _ The sum that I shall
have at my disposal at present, will be about three
hundred pounds _ May I also solicit of your
Lordship the favour of being informed if it is
likely that I shall be accepted as one of the settlers
if my list of individuals to be taken out, be such as
your Lordship approves _ I would not have
ventured this request had I not held a situation
the loss of which would be serious to me, did I not
go to the Cape, and I should feel much hurt to

be obliged to behave unhandsome to my employer
by giving him too short a notice of my intention
of leaving him, & the money I intend to thus employ
is a Interest, and some notice of my calling it in,
to be required by the person in whose hands it
is _ My address, My Lord, is to the care of Joseph
Hadwen Esqr Liverpool _ as early a reply as may
be convenient to your Lordship will much oblige
My Lord, your Lordships
Most obdt Servt
Joseph Neave
Right Honble Earl Bathurst
&c &c &c

P.S. Will the settlers have the advantage
of Exchange in the return of the deposit at the
Cape?