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On January 25, 1825, he was appointed Counsel to the Colonial Office, and on August 2 following Counsel to the Board of Trade, receiving 1,500l. a year for the two offices, and abandoning his private practice. A daughter, Frances Wilberforce, was born on September 8, 1824, but died on July 22 following.
This island abounded in gold; of the value of which, the inhabitants were so utterly ignorant, that they readily allowed the Samians to carry home with them sixty talents, or about 13,500l. According to Pliny, they first built vessels fit to transport cavalry.
At last the Sa Leonites, hopeless of obtaining a Government grant, have set on foot a subscription which reached 500l. some say 700l. There are, therefore, certain fitful signs of activity, and bricks and fire-bricks now cumber the ground; but it is all a 'flash in the pan. The present purpose is to make it a library, in place of the fine old collection which went to the dogs.
The whole valued at 70,000l., the annual interest is 3,500l.; while this is cleared, the proprietors are safe, but I think it must be infernal management indeed that does not double it. "I suppose Mr. Stanley has written to you relative to your oratorio orchestra.
Some have evidently laboured to bring in an English though not a Roman Popery; I mean not only the outside and dress of it, but equally absolute.... Nay, common fame is more than ordinarily false if none of them have found a way to reconcile the opinions of Rome to the preferments of England, and be so absolutely, directly and cordially Papists that it is all that 1,500l. a year can do to keep them from confessing it.
If it involved a risk of a little money, you would not mind it; but men are such odd creatures they measure all sacrifices by money. Doctor Bryerly would look just as you describe, if you were doomed to lose 500l., and yet it would not kill you.
When Robert was only twenty years of age, he determined to begin the business of cotton-printing, which he had by this time learnt from his father, on his own account. His uncle, James Haworth, and William Yates of Blackburn, joined him in his enterprise; the whole capital which they could raise amongst them amounting to only about 500l., the principal part of which was supplied by William Yates.
It was found that among the moneys advanced by Jellicoe to Cort there was a sum of 27,500L. entrusted to him for the payment of seamen's and officers' wages. How his embarrassments had tempted him to make use of the public funds for the purpose of carrying on his speculations, appears from his own admissions.
The next deepest was De Beer's, which, however, was very unevenly worked. Then followed Du Toit's Pan and Bultfontein. The Du Toit's Pan mine ranked next in importance to Kimberley mine. Diamonds were first discovered in 1867 by Mr. O'Reilley, a trader and hunter, who visited a colonist named van Niekirk, residing in Griqua. The first diamond, on being sent to the authorities, was valued at 500l.
The discount being taken off, to render them equal to cash, would make a factor's allowance about 3,000l., and a trader's 1,500l. "The cost of commutation, on the above scale, would be 15 chief factors, at 3,000l L45,000 37 " traders, at 1,500l 55,500 18 shares held on retirement, about 14,000 L114,500 ========
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