RUSS, Joseph
462
Tovill nr Maidstone
Kent
July 23rd 1819
Sir,
Having many applications in the neighbourhood in which I live from poor labourers and mechanics requesting information about the offer of government to send them out to the Cape of Good Hope I should feel greatly obliged by having the following questions replied to that I may be enabled to satisfy their enquiries, preventing them the expence of a journey to London & giving trouble at the office.
On what part of the coast of Africa would the colony be established. How soon would it be necessary for them to prepare to embark. Might a certain tonnage be allowed to a given number for the purpose of receiving articles necessary for establishing them in the settlement. On their arrival at the Cape would they be left to themselves or forwarded to their places of settlement under the inspection of the Government there.
The interest I feel for the parties in question will I trust be an excuse for the trouble I now give.
I remain Sir
Your most obed’t serv’t
Joseph RUSS
Should I be favored with an answer in the course of a week I should request it is addressed to 34 Arundel Street, Strand