4004. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 April 1823
MS: National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
The account which my brother gave me was that three pounds per head were paid by the parishes for the passage of the emigrants
that sum including the food upon the voyage which is calculated at four weeks. I do not know whether the adventurers received any money to support them on their first arrival. They were certainly persons either chargeable to the parish at the time or as sure to become so, that this has been deemed the cheapest method of providing xxxx <for> them – for it is a parochial business. I cannot answer Mr Wilmots
questions more precisely at present, – but I will endeavour to obtain such information. My brother has sailed – & by good fortune for the human cargo onboard there goes a navy surgeon in the same vessel, who is appointed to a ship on the Lakes.
But it is evident that when they reach Canada they will find themselves in a worse state than a set of redemptioners in Yankee land.
I will lose no time in making inquiry & communicate the result to you as soon as possible.
God bless you
RS
Keswick. 19 Apr. 1823
