Catalogue description Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Removal of liberated Africans from Cuba....

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Removal of liberated Africans from Cuba. Correspondence from Mr Turnbull, superintendent of liberated Africans at Havana, and the Foreign Office. Subjects covered are as follows: Mr Turnbull: armed tender to be added to the Romney; will communicate to Lieutenant Fitzgerald on the subject of armed tender; case of schooner Charles accused of contraband practices in Cuba; case of William Jones and others rescued from slavery and sent to the Bahamas; copy of despatch sent to governor of Jamaica relating to crew of the schooner Plover sunk in the Gulf of Florida; case of Henry Shirley kidnapped and sold into slavery; expense of postage to which British consul at Havana is liable; case of the boy Wellington and his release from slavery; request for Mixed Commission to enquire into case of Gabino; case of British subject Fontanales rescued from slavery; growing trade of British colonies with Cuba; sanitary regulations of harbour of Havana as applied to British colonial commerce; Wellington said to have been given up to Mr Hardy; further on case of Henry Shirley; restoration of the boy Wellington; case of Fontanales kidnapped at Sierra Leone and sold into slavery at Havana; explanation of his debt to Mrs Stephen; further respecting case of Henry Shirley kidnapped at Jamaica; further respecting case of Emancepado Gavino; United States views on Cuba; capture of Spanish schooner Jesus Maria with 240 slaves; measures adopted to send his despatches following loss of the packet ship Spey; his defence of tradesmen employed to supply liberated Africans; sanitary regulations at Havana; further respecting Africans landed from slaver Jesus Maria; expense of removing liberated Africans; Spanish schooner Segunda Rosario captured by HMS Cleopatra and condemned by the Mixed Commission Court; sailor charged with stealing blankets from liberated Africans; convoy for the Meg Lee transport; forwards certificates of emancipation of Africans captured in the Jesus Maria; announces return of Mr Everett to the United States; states that the liberated Africans of the Segunda Rosario have been disposed of and reports mortality and disease among them; arrival of Don Geronimo Valdez the new captain general of Cuba; requests information as to privileges of certain classes of Africans in British colonies and the case of Pancho; defence against imputations of the British commissioners relating to the mortality among the victims of the Jesus Maria and the supposed death of the assistant surgeon of the Romney; account of his first audience with the new captain general; certificates of emancipation of Africans from the Jesus Maria; seeks special instructions for the disposal of liberated Africans detained at Havana after the departure of their companions and refers to a Honduras case; disposal of Africans from the Jesus Maria and the Segunda Rosario; expected excess of males in future importations of liberated Africans; acknowledges receipt of despatch and other documents from Mr Madden which he has placed among the archives; affair between the Romney guard and certain Spaniards on shore; great movement in Cuba in favour of suppression of the slave trade; further on case of the Segunda Rosario; whether a foreign slaver can be legally seized in a Spanish port by a British cruiser [two letters]; apologises for not sending duplicates and referring to Foreign Office; seeks instructions as to slaves imported into Cuba from New Providence by the late Mr Forbes and free 'people of colour' imported from Jamaica by Hector Mitchell; enquiry about his outfit and salary; British 'negroes' from Barbados enslaved at Suriname; Henry Shirley's freedom restored; states that no more liberated Africans can be sent to Honduras; establishment of a competition for liberated Africans; future disposal of liberated Africans; asks to be acquitted of charges brought against him by the British commissioners in the case of the Jesus Maria Africans; instructions not to send Africans to Nevis; emigration of 'negroes' from Spanish to British colonies; alleged deportation of free people from Jamaica by Hector Mitchell; has sent a circular to West Indies governors relating to future disposal of liberated Africans; his defence against Jesus Maria charge; refusal of captain general to give up James Thompson of Bahamas; acknowledges receipt of notification of Lord Stanley's appointment; slaves taken from Bahamas to Havana by Mr Forbes; 'negroes' from Bahamas held in slavery in Cuba by Mr Forbes; copies of correspondence with governors about future disposal of Africans; certificate confirming execution of his duties. Foreign Office: assault by Spaniard on Romney soldier; tonnage duties on vessels carrying liberated Africans; Turnbull's correspondence as superintendent and consul to be kept distinct; agrees with reply to Turnbull concerning Jesus Maria slaves [two letters]; annual report of commissioners for 1841; opinion of attorney general that British cruisers may not capture foreign vessels in a Spanish port; Mr Kennedy's accusation that Mr Turnbull took a bribe from the master of the Meg Lee.