MUDIE, John Young
494
No. 3 India Place
Shepherd & Shepherdess Walk
City Road, London
July 21st 1819
My Lord
I apply’d a few days ago to Lord SIDMOUTH, stating my wish to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, and was this morning honour’d with an answer directing me to apply to Your Lordship.
I was formerly a Bookseller at the West end of the Town and can refer to several gentlemen of the highest respectability in that Business. I am nearly 40 years of age and have a Wife and 5 Children, (viz) 4 Boys and a Girl, the eldest 16 years, the youngest three, all in good health and ready to proceed to the Colony with Your Lordship's approbation. I am greatly reduced in my circumstances and find it impossible to support my family, without occasional assistance from my friends which it is my anxious wish to avoid. Should Your Lordship be pleased to direct my departure agreeable to the regulations of His Majesty's Government you will bestow a lasting obligation on a whole family. With sentiments of the greatest respect I have the honour to subscribe myself
Your Lordships most obedient and devoted humble servant
John Young MUDIE