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Pringle, Rear-Admiral T[homas], [Tremendous]. To Earl Macartney
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Encloses information, including a sketch, of a possible action at sea but the look-out officer feels it was mist and not smoke from guns.
Macartney, Earl, Castle of Good Hope. To Henry Dundas, [London]
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Asks that the East India Company be requested to ship lead and leather to the Cape for the Burgher Senate at prime cost and preferably freight free.
Copy in letter-book. Encloses 140, 141, 154, 165.
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Pringle, Rear-Admiral T[homas], [Tremendous, Simons Bay]. To Earl Macartney
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
News of the mutiny of the fleet at Spithead may have repercussions at the Cape but hopes that trouble may be averted if pay increases for seamen are announced soon; requests 60 soldiers to be embarked on the ships as marine.
Dundas, Major-General F[rancis], Castle. [Cape of Good Hope]. To Earl Macartney
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Agrees to Rear-Admiral Pringle's request for soldiers and will have them ready by morning.
Barrow, John, Trumpeter's Kraal, on the Banks of Groot Vis Rivier. To Earl Macartney
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Feels that there is no need for alarm about a plot by Dutch farmers as he has seen no signs of unrest and that a landing at Zwartkops is unlikely because the coast is wild there; is about to settle the Caffre problem.
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Cannot find any evidence to support the rumour of an intended insurrection of Dutch farmers; has been to Zwartkops River, where he administered the oath of allegiance, and is now about to set off to the Caffre country to persuade the Chief to allow those Caffres settled beyond the Great Fish River to return to their own country.
Letter certified a true translation by C.G. Hohne, Sworn Translator.
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Castle of Good Hope, requesting cartons for the replacement of defaced currency
Part of Earl George Macartney
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Describes the Bay with reference to winds and navigability; there is no timber suitable for building, no mines and no trading with the natives.
Part of Earl George Macartney Papers
Declares that, as the country is not under martial law, no inhabitant say be confined by the military, except in cases of riot.
Document Signed by Thomas Nott, Deputy Adjutant-General.