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Halifax August 14th 1821

Sir,
It having been represented to His Excellency Sir James Kempt some time since that several of the Black Refugees settled at Preston and Hammonds Plains were anxious to join their friends who lately went to Trinidad, His Excellency applied to the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury for permission to employ at Trans-port in conveying them to that Island; and their Lordships having accordingly sent out a vessel under the command of a Lieutenant in the navy, with directions to proceed to Trinidad with such of these poor people, as may be still desirous of going thither, His Excellency desires that you will visit the abovementioned places, and make it publickly known to the settlers that, in case a sufficient number of them should be disposed to remove to Trinidad, the transport will sail in three
weeks

per Richard Inglis