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Asks if letters of recommendation can be sent to Madeira to contradict the rumours that her brother-in-law, Mr. Jessup, in really an impostor of low character called 'Jessop'.

In letter-book marked 'Letters from England'. Enclosed in 293.

Jessup, Lady A[nn]. To Rowland Burden, London

ZA HPRA A88-282 (b63)
Item
3 January 1798

Part of Earl George Macartney Papers

Asks for Earl Macartney to be informed that Mr. Jessup is in truth the person recommended by Mr. Dundas.

In letter-book marked 'Letters from England'. Enclosed in 293.

autograph letter signed Sealed.

Grant, John. Cape Town. To H[ercules] Ross, Cape Town

ZA HPRA A88-289 (233)
Item
16 January 1798

Part of Earl George Macartney Papers

Offers to sell specie in the form of Porto Novo Pagodas to the value of £10, 000, if permitted to bring goods for the purpose of trading; J. Grant was the Super Cargo on the ship Glasgow.

Pringle, John, Cape of Good Hope. To Earl Macartney

ZA HPRA A88-283 (228)
Item
10 January 1798

Part of Earl George Macartney Papers

Reports on the state of the cargoes of the ships Jane and Snow Betsey, asks what to do with the weeviled grain and comments on the freight prices.

Enclosed 277-280, 284.

Stromborn, J. and Murray, J[ohn], Cape of Good Hope. To Earl Macartney

ZA HPRA A88-284 (227)
Item
10 January 1798

Part of Earl George Macartney Papers

Report on the state of cargo carried by the ship Jane; the wheat is unfit for consumption but the other cargo, including the timber, is in reasonable state. Enclosed in 283.

autograph letter signed.

Dundas, Henry, Parliament Street [London]. To His Majesty's Advocate General.[London]

ZA HPRA A88-291 (b40)
Item
19 January 1798

Part of Earl George Macartney Papers

Encloses papers received from Earl Macartney on the claim made by the captors at the Cape for a share of the debts due to the late Dutch East India Company and asks his opinion on the legality of this claim.

Copy in letter-book marked 'Letters from England'. letter.

List of quantities of wheat and rice landed from the Snow Betsey, commanded by Thomas Megson

ZA HPRA A88-280 (224)
Item
1798 January [3]

Part of Earl George Macartney Papers

Enclosed in 283. document Signed by John Pringle, Commissary General.

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