Wentworth, William

To His Excellency The Right
Honble Genl. Lord Charles Henry Somerset,
Governor & Commander in Chief of the Colony
of the Cape of Good Hope &c. &c. &c.
The humble Memorial of William Wentworth most
humbly & respectfully,
Sheweth,
That your Excellencys Memorialist came into
this Colony with the Party of Settlers under the superintendance
of the late Mr. William Clarke.
That your Excellencys Memorialist has since his
arrival, by industry & perseverance, aided by the constant &
paternal solicitude evinced by your Excellency for the
general and individual interests of the British Settlers
arrived at a great degree of comfort and local stability, but
which would be greatly enhanced should your Excellency
consider Memorialist deserving of that consideration, as to
grant him a loan of One Thousand Rix dollars, to be laid out
in stock, and for which your Excellencys Memorialist
is prepared to give good & ample security.
That your Excellencys Memorialist, in making
this request is aware of the large Sum of Money which
has been contributed by a generous public for the relief of
distressed British Settlers in Africa, but as he considers such
contributions to have been obtained under false pretenses
and that no such distress and misery exist as to call forth
such an exercise of public philantropy and benevolence in
this regard, he feels compelled to decline accepting pecuniary

assistance from a fund which has been created by such
palpable misrepresentations
In conclusion Your Excellencys memorialist trusts
that his character & conduct upon the strictest
Scrutiny, will shew that Memorialist is not
undeserving your Excellencys consideration .
Grahams Town
2 October 1824
W Wentworth