Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-01-18
No. 5.
,Copy.]
Hamilton, Bermuda, }

september lUh, 1895.
My Lord.-Circumstances of an imperative
nature command us no longer to forbear most
respectfully addressing your Lordship on the
subject OF u competent provision tor our MAN.
enance and support in this the land of our Exile.
We therefore have the honor of submitting TO
YOU! Lordship's judgment the following consid.
erators, as those upon which we found the hope,
hat your Lordship, on behalf of Her Majesty's
government will feel warranted in ordering that
such allowance be made to US during our deten.
ton here as our unrrovded condition and our
respective cams in society may seem to justify,
laving due regard to the eXorbitant price of
living in these Islands.
Your Lordship will no doubt bear in mind that
most of US have sustained rulnous losses during
he late disastrous events in our native country
that three amonst US have large families whose
subsistence hitherto depended on the Father,
out who are now deriving their maintenance
rom the eleemosynary aid of relatives and
friends that others who were absolutely de.
pendent upon their professional emolumenis for
suppor,are now placed beyond the pale OF SUI h
"A resource and thrown entirely destitute upon
hese insular shores.
We had hoped. and we owe it in all candor to
say SO TO your Lordship, that some provision
would have been made for us here under the
peculiar circumstances of our position, and the
previous knowledge existing on the score of our
total inability to provide adequately for ourselves
IN a stranger land, cut off from friends and home
and shorne OF every means of subsistence! Our
surprise was therefore, great indeed, when we
we're apprised on board II. NJ. S. Vestal, by a
Despatch from the Governor of these Islands to
Captain Carter (Which the latter read to us) that
W. were, for the present, to look exclusively to
our own resources for living in Bermuda no in.
sructlons having been received authorsing any
provision for our maintenance.
The expression in the despatch importing q
temporary iorbearance only, of some allowance,
had led us to abstain hitherto from bringing un.
der your Lo,dsfip's immediate notice our unex.
speced embarrassment but imperious necessi-
" forbids our longer Withholding formal appli-
cation TO your Lordship for compete Mt main
,enance, supported we believe in so doing, by
.he constant practice OF government towards
state prisoners, and in the full persuasion that il
did not enter into your Lordship's views to cast
rs adrft upon the rocks of Bermuda without
food, rolment or shelter.
We take this opportunity, My Lord, of con
veyng to your Lordship the expression of ou
grateful sentiments for the provision made for NJ
under your Lordshlp's sanction on board IL. NJ
S. Vestal, and we are happy i n this occasion o
minimizing W youI ILoIusllp our tHanklulHess 'o
the kind treatment we received on our passage
hther--a treatment which could not but be fiat
tering to our fellow countrymen as in grea
measure rejecting upon themselves, and condu
Give, we trust, TO the healing Of wounds tina
we ardenlly and devoutly hope may be made T.
disappear at the approach of enlightenment ad
ministratve wisdom, liberali,y and justice.
[Signedl By the eight exlles.
ITO this application no answer was received