Brown, John

To the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst 7+c. 7+c. 7+c. //
The humb{le} Memorial of John Brown, and John Stubbs //
Sheweth //
That your memorialists being pos+ses+sed of a small Capital //
which they are unable to employ with such advantage as will secure to their res=pective //
Families either Subsistence or the means of giving them such an //
Education as they consider neces+sary to their future Succes+s in Life have direc=ted //
their serious attention to the liberal Proposals of His Majesty’s Govern=ment //
as contained in the Circular Letter to Persons desirous of emigra=ting //
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 as+sistance as His Majesty’s Government have determined //
upon granting. //
Your Memorialists humbly submit for your Lordships Approbation the an=nexed // list of the Names and such other particulars as they consider important //
of the Individuals they have engaged on their proposed Undertaking. //
That deeply impres+sed 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 //
Majesty’s Government by securing to the Individuals under them every //
comfort their situation can pos+sibly admit. They have used every Measure to //
make themselves acquainted with the different Characters of these Individuals //
and venture with much confidence to as+sert 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 as+signed 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 //
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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 as+sistance can be granted to settlers, whenever permitted so to do, and they entreat permis+sion further to represent that some of the families they have engaged are at present in great distres+s and anxiously waiting such communication as the honour of your Lordship’s reply will * your memorialists to make them.
We have the honour to subscribe ourselves
My Lord
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servants
John BROWN
John STUBBS
48 Kenton Street, Bloomsbury, 10th August 1819