BRINT, Thomas (BRENT in Nash)
407/408
Glostershire
Aug 19th 1819
My Lord,
Having been informed that it is the intention of Government to assist a number of individuals to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, I should be happy to participate in the favour. I have seen an article in the Gloster Journal containing the conditions on which the Government purpose to assist persons who are willing to emigrate. I have accordingly made application to my Parish officers to know their ?opinions? of the business and they have agreed to advance the money required. I have also been in expectation of further information relative to the proper person to whom I may apply and also the time and place of embarkation but receiving no satisfactory account on this subject I have found myself under the necessity of addressing your Lordship and here I observe that I have seen a letter which one of my neighbours has received from your Lordship from which I learned that it was not the plan of Government to [take] individual application. The reason therefore for my addressing your Lordship is because I cannot obtain the necessary information from any other quarter. The information which I humbly request of your Lordship is that your Lordship will have the goodness to direct me to whom I may apply so I may give in my name. I am a poor man with a wife and four children under fourteen. I have been engaged in HM Service and have a salary from Government for servitude and since discharged at the conclusion of the Peace by intrest and since being discharged have not had employment to support my family and should therefore be glad to embrace the opportunity of emigrating to the place where I have already been and I like the country extreemly well. I therefore shall wait your Lordship’s pleasure for an answer and remain your Lordship’s most obliging and humble servant
Thos. BRINT