(4.) That each purchaser shall have one acre within the town, for erecting CHA P. ftores, &c*. XI. (5.) That all lands which should not be fubfcribed for, or granted to purchafers, BULAMA. or given to yeoment, on the day of the failing of the expedition, fhould be confidered to belong to purchasers and original colonists, according to the proportions fubfcribed for by colonists, or granted to purchasers; provided fuch purchasers did not renounce their right, to be fo expressed in their grants; and that such furplus land fhould not be cultivated as a joint concern, but be left till fold or divided, save and except 35,000 acres of the faid furplus land, to be exempted from fuch fale or divifion, to accommodate future colonists ‡. (6.) That every perfon, entitled to 125 acres, or upwards, fhould have a right to obtain a grant for a colonist, on the reserved land, in the proportion of 30 acres to cach individual, for every 100 acres so subscribed for by him, provided no expense to the colony be thereby incurred. (7.) That every purchaser of land be allowed to send out an agent to fuperintend his interefts, through whom he shall have liberty to cultivate or not, traffic or not, as he may think fit, and be legally competent to any act which a colonist may do; except that he be not permitted to draw goods from the public store for the purchase of labour ||. (8.) That no power in the colony be competent to levy any tax on the uncultivated property of abfentees, which shall not equally affect the property of colonists." * It was afterwards agreed, that the town-lots of the colonists should be in the proportion of onetenth of their land, provided fuch lots exceed not 100 acres. To induce labourers and yeomen to embark, and become colonists, every married man was, at the fame time, offered 40 acres of land for himself, 20 for his wife, and 10 for each child, provided fuch grants exceeded not 100 acres, to one family; and to every unmarried yeoman, or labourer, 40 acres. The clause restricting the colonists from cultivating the furplus land, before it was allotted, was introduced to prevent the absentee purchasers, from becoming liable to a joint responsibility with the colonists, for any debts they might contract. In order farther to exonerate the absentee purchasers, an advertisement was published in the London Gazette, &c. to the following purport, viz. "BULAMA COLONY. "Notice is hereby given, That the fubfcribing colonists are alone refponfible for articles purchafed, and expenses incurred, by the Association, and that the purchasers of land from the colonists, are not liable to any responsibility whatever; also that the fubfcribing colonists do not intend to have any dealings upon credit, or any joint commercial concerns, beyond the amount of the first investment: and all whom it may concern are defired not to credit any perfons whatever, in the name, and on the faith of the Affociation." No. 103, Hatton Garden, Feb. 9th. 1792. (Signed) J. HERIOT, Sec. See in the Append. Notes, &c, respecting S. Leona and Bulama, NOTE C C. alfo § 180, 181. 538. Pre CHA P. £9000 fub fcribed, goods nitts engaged, truftees ap. pointed. 538. Previous to the publication of the preceding terms, the fociety's intentions were respectfully fubmitted to the BULAMA. Prime Minister *. In a few weeks, near £9000 were fubfcribed and paid in; and a committee of subscribers immebought, colo- diately bought a confiderable investment of merchandize for purchafing, from the neighbouring natives, the property of Bulama, for the purposes of trade, and for the hire of labourers. The committee, at the fame time, "engaged a number of yeomen and labourers to go out from England+," chartered two veffels of about 300 tuns each, and purchased a floop of 34 tuns. On board of these were shipped an ample fupply of flores, provisions, arms and ammunition, for the use of the colonists. - were appointed to manage the affairs of the Society abroad; and P. Le Mefurier, M.P. Efq. Lord Mayor of London, 1794, Sir J. R. Miller, Bart. David Scott, Efq. M. P. George Hartwell, Efq. and Trustees for the concern in England. The veffels finally failed from Spithead, on the 11th of April; but having been separated, in a storm, the Calypfo, after touching at Tene See in the Append. Notes, &c. refpe&ting S. Leona and Bulama, NOTE DD. + See in the Append. Notes, &c. refpecting S. Leona and Bulama, NOTE EE. XI. BULAMA. rife and Goree, arrived first at Bulama, about the end of CHA P. May. Mr. Dalrymple, having landed 30 men, intended to wait for the Hankey, on board of which was the investment for purchafing the island, and trading with the natives. In the interval, an event happened, fatal to fome individuals, but, in it's confequences, beneficial to the fociety*. 539. The Canabacs, inhabiting a neighbouring ifland, and to whom Bulama belonged, having been prepoffeffed against the Society, landed a party on the island. After lurking fome days in the woods, on the 3d of June, they took advantage of Mr. Dalrymple's absence, who had gone with four men, to explore the island, and surprising the remaining colonists, killed five men and one woman, mortally wounded two men, and carried off four women and three children. Upon this, Mr. Dalrymple judged it prudent to draw off his men, and to proceed to the Portuguese settlement on the neighbouring ifland of Biffao, where he found the Hankey and the Beggar's Bennison, safely arrived, after having touched at Tenerife and St. Jago. 540. The Portuguese at Biffao received them with great kindness, and assisted by Mr. Sylva de Cordosa, a Portuguese merchant, they dispatched a floop to the Canabacs, for the women and children they had carried off, and who were brought back in perfect health, having been, in every respect, well treated †. 541. On the 10th of June the king of the Papels, who refides on the island of Biffao, fent a meffage by his brother to the fettlers, of which the following is an explanation. Sce-in the Append. Notes, &c. refpecting S. Leona and Bulama, NOTE F F. See in the App. Notes, &c. refpe&t. S. Leona and Bulama, NOTE GG, No7, 15. Colonists at- tacked by the Colonists well received by Prifoners well treated by Ca nabacs. Tranfactions purchase of relative to the Bulama. CHAP. BULAMA. K. of Papel's meffage. Answer. (1.) The King of the Papels fent to me; he told me, he was given to underfland, that you wanted to fettle; but the Portuguese would not allow you to settle here. But it is not as they chufe. The King of the Papels wants to know, whether the country belongs to them? The king wishes much you would fettle here, though he doth not know what terms you may have come upon. He wishes much you may settle here, though the Roman Catholics wish you to go elsewhere. The king wishes you would let him know any part you would like to pitch upon, provided you could agree, and come upon good terms, as at this time, they wrote fome other government was here. He has fent his cane as a proof of his fidelity and attachment. Yesterday, don't you recollect my hailing for a boat? There were then Papels on fhore from the king to settle this affair, as they say themselves, that the inhabitants of Biffao do not wish for any other company but themselves; but it is as I, the King of Papels, chufe. You may depend on the king's word, as he declares he is ready to take up any cause against the Portuguese, that may hinder you from landing on any place you may wish to fettle on. This is the bufinefs those Papels are upon, to know if you are willing to buy any ground, from the point as far down as you please. You may rely the King of Papels will protect. If you do mean to purchase the ground, I will go on fhore with you to the king's to-morrow, and fhow you the ground. T. BIRCHALL, INTERPRETER. Received on Board the Hankey, the 10th of June. (2.) To this meffage Mr. Dalrymple returned the following answer, viz. "The British fettlers, now at Biffao, gratefully return thanks to the King of the Papels, for his hofpitable offer of a settlement in his dominions; but as they are defirous of avoiding all occafions of offence to their friends the Portuguese, that may tend to weaken the firm and faithful alliance that has long subsisted between their respective sovereigns; and, as the object of thefe fettlers is to make an establishment elfewhere, that cannot interfere betwixt the claims or interefts of any European power, they beg leave refpectfully to decline the invitation, at the fame time profeffing their wish to remain on terms of perpetual amity and alliance with the King of the Papels, and his fubjects, and in peace and friendship with all men. Signed for myself and the rest of the fettlers, on board the ship Hankey, June 11, 1792." "H. H. DALRYMPLE." 66 542. The friendly difpofition of the Canabacs being now ascertained, the ships returned to Bulama, from whence Meffrs. XI. Meffrs. Beaver and Dobbin were fent to Canabac, where CHAP they readily fucceeded in purchasing Bulama for 473 bars, BULAMA. agreeable to the Deed of Ceffion; executed by the kings of that nation, of which the following is a copy, viz. (3.)" Deed of Ceffion of the Island of Bulama, by the Kings Jalorum and Bellchore, to the British Colonists." of Bulama. "Whereas certain persons, subjects of the King of Great Britain, conducted by Conveyance H. H. Dalrymple, J. Young, Sir William Halton, Bart. J. King, Philip Beaver, Peter Clutterbuck, Francis Brodie, Charles Drake, J. Paiba, Richard Hancorne, Robert Dobbin, Isaac Ximenes, and Nicholas Bayley, Efqrs. as a committee to ma nage their affairs, having arrived on the windward coast of Africa, adjacent to the river Grande; and the faid committee having invefted P. Beaver and R. Dobbin, Efqrs. two of their members, with full power to treat with, and purchase from, us our Island of Bulama: we the Kings of Canabac, being fully convinced of the pacific and juft difpofition of the faid perfons, and of the great reciprocal benefits which will refult from an European colony being establish. ed in our neighbourhood, and being defirous of manifefting our friendship and af. fection to the King of Great Britain and his subjects; do hereby, in confideration of four hundred and feventy three bars of goods by us received, for ever cede and relinquish to the said King of Great Britain, all fovereignty over the Island of Bulama, which fovereignty our ancestors have acquired by conqueft, and have ever fince maintained undifputed in peace." "We do further folemnly guarantee to the said persons, their heirs, and affigns, against all enemies whatever, the full and peaceful poffeffion of the faid ifland: and, by these prefents, do bind ourfelves and our fubjects to aid and affift them. against all their enemies whatever; and the same fhall have all the force of a firm and faithful treaty of defensive alliance between the king of Great Britain and our. felves: and, together with the ifland aforefaid, we do relinquish all claim to any future treaty, fubfidy, or compofition whatever." "And of all the premised conditions, we, the two parties, do bind ourselves to the mutual obfervance, in the presence, and in the name of the Omnipotent God of truth and juftice, and the avenger of perfidy; and we have hereunto set our hands, this 29th of June, 1792. Captain Moore, who afterwards brought home Mr. Beaver's important difpatches of March 16, 1793, figned this paper, as a witness, |