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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1903.
We approve of your determination that all Notorious Offonders sentenced to be confined for life shall be transportod to the Andamans to be employed in clearing the Lands or on Publie Buildings or Works.
grd July, 1796. We approve of your determination for sending a Number of Convicts from the Nixamut Adawlut to the Andamans.
For the reasons stated we approve of your having taken up – Vessel, built by the late Colonel Kyd, for the Service of the Andamans.
For the forcible reasons that have been urged, we approve of the addition which has been made to Major Kyd's Allowances as Superintendant of the Andamans.
5th January 1796. We have perused the very able and impartial Report part the first from Major Kyd, referred to in the 5th Paragraph of your Letter in this Department of the 20th March last, upon the comparative advantages of the two Settlements at Prince of Wales Island and the Andamans. But as you have declared your intention of communicating to us your Sentiments upon this subject by the next Ship and as we had previously desired your opinion thereon we shall not enter at this time into the consideration thereof.
27th July 1706. For the reasons stated we approve of your Request to the Bombay Govern. ment that European Convicts should not in future bo ordered to the Andamans.
We approve of the Snow Druid having been freighted for carrying Supplies to the Andamans.
9th May 1797. From the information contained in the very able Report of Major Kyd, referred to in these 739 & 756h Paras of your Letter, and for the reasons assigned in your subsequent Dispatch of the 7th March 1796, we approve of your Resolutions of the 8th February preceding, for withdrawing the Settlement at the Andamans; and we are pleased to find by the 14th Paragraph of your Letter of the 5th July last, that except the freight of a small Vessel stationed at the Andamans merely to keep possession, every expense on account of the Establishment had ceased.
Appendix II. Among a series of MS. Records at the Indix Office known as E, I, Co. Home Serios, Miscellaneous, are two of much interest in the present connection No. 484 giving M! LA Benume's romarks concerning the Andamana in 1790, and No. 888 giving Lieutenant Btokoe's. • Concise account of the Andamans,' with & plan of Port Cornwallis, dated 1793. Through the courtesy of the authorities I am now able to publish them.
No. I. E. I. Co., Home Series, Miscellaneous, 431 J. Letters from Mr George Smith to M! Dundas afterwards Viscount Mulville on various topics.
Extract from lotter dated 10 January 1790 introducing M! Melchior La Beaume, directed to William Cabell Esq!
"You will find him (M! La Beaume) a sensible, Intelligent, and well informed Man, who is capable of giving useful information relative to India, & its Commerce and on that account, I introduce him to you, and should be glad that you would for the same reason present him to Mp Dundass. To M! La Beaume is principally owing any late Discoveries which we may have made at the Andyman Isles, for to my knowledge, he proposed to undertake at his own Expence the Discu rery of these Isles, and of placing a Colony there, if he succeeded in finding a proper Harbour, or Port for the reception of ships of war, and proper place for planting a Colony, he then was to be paid such sum as might be agreed upon between him & Government, if he did not succeed, he was to receive no recompense, a proposition of this public spirited Tendency, did I do verily believe Spur Government to the Discovery of these Isles, what effects have attended it, I cannot say,
