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Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802 – 1894), statesman, sometime Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies and laterBiblio.com

3rd Earl Grey; Guiana Substantial Autograph Letter Signed "Grey" to Thomas Baring who has requested advice on the latter's eventual petition 3 July 1857 of the immigration of free labour as opposed to slaves as in the USA into Guiana.

rif. 23456Howick 25 June 1857. Six pages 12mo good condition. He finds it difficult to give advice because of his "being so imperfectly informed as to the present state of the question of immigration into Guiana. - It is obvious that the course which ought to be taken must depend upon whether the Colonists have or have not reason to complain of the conduct of the Government.- If they have & if any facilities for obtaining labour which might be granted to them have been with-held then a discussion would seem to be desirable & in the present word obscured of the session & if parties in the House of Commons I do not see how you could ruin a discussion except by asking a question & making a statement in explanation of it going into Committee of Supply. But if the Govt as I think it most likely sincerely desire to do all that can properly be done to encourage immigartion & only refuse to consent to measures to which there is a just objectn it would seem to me doubtful whether there would be any advantage in bringing on a discussion or whether it would be quite right to do so. - For this reason if I had remained in town & had had words deleted to present the petition to the House of Lords I would in the first instance have called upon the gentlemen connected with the colony in this country for a clear explanation of what they want & of the grounds on which they think the government ought to do more for them & I w-ould have endeavoured to satisfy myself whether they are right or wrong in order that in presenting the petition I might express the opinion I had formed which you know is allowed in the House of Lords. .". Howick, 25 June 1857 unknown

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Lord Grey [Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey] as Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1846 [Colonial Office, Whitehall; Sir W M GBiblio.com

Lord Grey and ‘unsteady habits’ of immigrants to Mauritius and West Indies 1846. Three printed items: Colonial Office circular dispatch; copy of dispatch to Governor of Mauritius; ‘Heads of an Ordinance for Promoting Immigration’ to Mauritius.

rif. 24266ONE: Printed circular dispatch Downing Street 23 October 1846. TWO: Grey’s Dispatch No. 38 Downing Street 29 September 1846. THREE: ‘Heads of an Ordinance’ London 1846. Extracted from a volume of Parliamentary Circulars with the ownership signature "Frederick Peel" Member of Parliament from Feb. 1849 dated 1839-1851. All three items are scarce with no copies on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. Both in good condition lightly aged. Disbound from a volume and paginated in manuscript. ONE: Printed ‘Circular’ headed in manuscript ‘Immiration / W. Indies & Mauritius’ and dated from Downing Street 23 October 1846. Paginated in manuscript 93. At foot of page not in Grey’s hand: ‘/sd/ Grey’. Text reads: ‘Sir / I have had under my consideration the evils which have been experienced in some of the West Indian Colonies but more extensively still in the Island of Mauritius from the unsteady habits of certain classes of Immigrants. I have addressed to the Governor of Mauritius a Dispatch in which I have suggested the adoption of a system in respect to Coolie Immigrants which appears to me to be calculated to meet these evils and to be applicable also to the case of Coolie or any other Immigrants introduced into the West Indian Colonies otherwise than at their own Cost. I transmit to you herewith a Copy of this Dispatch and I request you to consider it as embodying the principles of regulation in this matter which if the Colonial Legislatures should be disposed to adopt Her Majesty’s Government would be prepared to sanction.’ TWO: Printed copy of Grey’s dispatch ‘No. 38’ to Mauritius Governor ‘Lieut.-General / Sir W. M. Gomm K.C.B. / &c. &c. &c.’ 6pp 8vo. In small type. Paginated in type 1-6 and in manuscript 95-100. Among many other subjects he discusses the ‘very remarkable organization of Village communities’ in India’ an ‘ancient institution’ to which the ‘people of India are strongly and justly attached’. THREE: Printed set of ‘Heads of an Ordinance for Promoting Immigration into the Island of Mauritius and the Industry of Immigrants.’ 2pp 8vo. No printed pagination; paginated in manuscript 101-102. Ten heads in small print the first being: ‘A Register to be made of all Immigrants who have been introduced into the Island at the Public Expense within five years and such Register to be filled up from time to time with the names of newly-arrived Immigrants and also with such other particulars as are hereby required to be recorded.’ ONE: Printed circular dispatch, Downing Street, 23 October 1846. TWO: Grey’s Dispatch No. 38, Downing Street, 29 September 184 unknown

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