Letters to General Brownrigg-3

C. O. 54/40

Downing Street,
5th Nov 1611.

General Brownrigg
No. 5.

Sir,

I transmit to you herewith the copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty dated the 8th ultimo enclosing an Extract from the Instructions given to Vice Admiral Sir James Hood respecting the formation of a Naval Establishment at Trincomalee and I am to signify to you the pleasure of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, that you are to give every assistance in your power for carrying into effect their Lordships' instructions.
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C. O. 54/40

Downing Street,
5th Nov 1811.

To: General Brownrigg
No. 6.

Sir,

I herewith enclose the copy of a letter which has been addressed by my directions to the Secretary of the Treasury and I am to desire that you will consider a certificate from the Paymaster General of the Forces of the issue of the sum of money in this country to the Agent of the Island a sufficient authority for you to imprest the sum to the Deputy Paymaster in the Island of Ceylon.
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C. O. 54/40

Downing Street,
5th Nov 1811.

To: Lieut. Genl. Brownrigg
No 7.

Sir,

In a dispatch addressed to Lord Castlereagh on the 17th Aug 1808 General Maitland has stated that he conceived it essential to the efficicnet execution of the Civil Service in Ceylon that some alteration should be made in those regulations which fix the period at which the Civil Servant is entitled to retire upon his pension, and which do not as at present constituted enable the Governor to hold out to him those inducements by which his continuance in the public employment might be secured.

As a remedy to the inconvenience occasioned by these restrictions General Maitland has proposed that the Governor should be authorized should he think fit to retain in the Civil Service for a period not exceeding three years, or during the duration of his own Government, those servants who might be willing to remain after having served the period of 12 years and to continue to them the payment of their salaries in addition to the amount which they are entitled to receive from the Pension Fund.

As no additional expense will be incurred and no new obligations imposed upon the Civil Servant under this arrangement, I have no difficulty in recommending it to your adoption in the first instance in which you may deem it expedient to avail yourself of it.
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C. O. 54/40

Downing Street,
5th Nov 1811.

To: General Brownrigg.
No 8.

Sir,

I herewith transmit to you the copy of a letter which has been addressed to Mr Pulmy, Under Secretary, by Gov. Maitland. From the strong representations which are therein made in favor of Messrs. Bietterman, Turnour, Sawers and Tolfrey, I can have no hesitation in expressing my concurrence in the opinion of General maitland that the above four gentlemen should be entitled to be placed upon the regular establishment from the beginning of the present year.
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C. O. 54/40

Downing Street,
5th Nov 1811.

To: General Brownrigg
No 9.

Sir,

I herewith transmit to you a memorandum receibed by me from Lt. General Maitland on the present state of the clerical establishment in the Island of Ceylon.

His Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to approve of Gov. Maitland's recommendation that an additional Chaplain should be borne upon the Establishment of Ceylon in order that the Funds and Registers of Marriages, Births, etc. may be more regularly kept, and has also approved of the appointment of the Revd. Bisset to this situation.

You will consider yourself authorized to carry into effect the regulations prepared by General Maitland in this memorandum for the payment in future of the military and assistant Chaplains.
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C. O. 54/40

Downing Street,
7th Nov 1811.

Lieut. General Brownrigg.
No 10.

Sir,

I herewith transmit for your information the copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury dated the 21st inst. enclosing a state of the account of William Husskinson as agent for the Island of Ceylon for the year 1807.
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