Austin, John George

To His Excellency Major General Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin
Knight of the most Honourable and Military
Order of the Bath, Acting Governor and Commanding in
Chief His Majestys Forces at the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c

The Memorial of John George Austin most humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialist who
is about 26 Years of age came out to this country in
the capacity of a servant to Miles Bowker . Esqre and
from whom he has obtained his discharge but in
consequence of this engagement it will be evident to
your Excellency that he cannot possibly be induced
in the smallest degree of arrears with His Majestys
Government
That your Excellencys Memorialist
has in England a kind and venerable relative upwards
of Sixty eight years of age, who holds an
Estate to which at her decease he is the heir at
Law and who wishes him to return home to his
native country as speedily as possible, for purposes
connected with his future welfare and to which
he is very desirous of complying
That your Memorialist therefore
most humbly and earnestly implores that your
Excellency would be graciously pleased in your wonted
goodness to allow him to proceed forthwith to England at
his own expence
That your Memorialist hereby most deliberately
assures your Excellency that he has contracted no debts

with any one in the Colony, and therefore he is perfectly ready
to comply with any formalities which may be required of him
previous to his leaving the country
That should your Excellency be pleased in
the magnanimity of your noble mind to grant your
Memorialist the prayer contained in this Memorial he
will ever feel himself in duty bound to pray for the
prosperity of your Excellency and the latest posterity of
your illustrious House
John George Austin
Grahams Town Septr 24 1821