Burnett, Bishop

To His Excellency The Right /
Honorable General Lord /
Charles Somerset, Governor /
of the Cape of Good Hope /
Commander of the Forces /
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The Memorial of Bishop Burnett /
respectfully Sheweth. /
That Memorialist on pleas variously /
urged to your Excellency, conceives /
his title to the pecuniary aid recently /
granted to the distres+sed Agriculturalists /
paramount over all others /
That under such considerations he /
asks for a pecuniary advance propor=tioned /
to the merits of this title. /
The highest advance stated in your /
Excellency’s proclamation _ remune=ration /
for his los+ses occasioned by such /
acts of injustice on the part of the Colonial /
Government as he can establish . _ /
and the account of his actual expen=diture /
incurred by the refusal of /
Rations to this istablishment, during /
the period of their iSsue to the other /
Settlers . /
That without full, or approximating /
compliance with these requests . _ /
Memorialist solemnly protests that /
his views, intent, and object of /
enterprize /
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enterprize in this Colony are /
defeated only by the injustice of /
the Colonial Government. /
He therefore respectfully /
solicits of your Excellency /
that an advance of not /
les+s than Five Thousand /
Rix Dollars may be ordered /
to him, or a free pas+sage /
to England for himself /
and the persons neces+sary /
to the confirmations of his /
claims there. /
and Memorialist will ever pray /
B. Burnett /
Grahams Town /
28\th./ October 1822. /