| Description | He has received Butscher's letters from Goree and S. L. The stores lost in the 'Charles' are being replaced by the 'Neptune's' cargo and Captain William Gibson will receive renumeration for his kind help with the 'Charles'.
He has sent school-books, of value £10 approximately, for the school for black troops run by Major Chisholm and a copy of the 13th CMS 'Report' with letters of thanks to him and Lt. Col. McCarthy.
Butscher's bills have been accepted and Mrs. Butscher's upon her property will be paid 12 months after demand if Butscher will send Power of Attorney to endorse the note.
After full consideration of the needs and opportunities presented by the chaplaincy in S. L. the Committee leaves Butscher free to decide whether to accept it after considering the best interests of the Colony, the Mission and the natives. The question of a Gambier settlement should be held in mind when making a decision. CMS supporters look for one without delay.
Butscher will be disappointed that John Christian Schnarre and Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius are to go to India instead of West Africa. The new Charter allows access for Christian missionaries and Dr. John at Tranquebar urgently needs help. The Committee have urged Berlin to ordain the 4 remaining Seminarists and send them to Africa, replacing them with 4 other sensible and pious students at CMS cost.
As CMS Superintendent of Schools in the Colony, Butscher is in a most important post. CMS could send German teachers, and the African Institution would probably help with money, to bring all the schools into a well ordered system using the Lancastrian method. Wider support would be obtained from many who now stand aloof.
Holl, who has managed Dr. Bathie's school at Hammersmith is to spend the Christmas vacation with Scott to enable the Committee to test him for suitability as a missionary schoolmaster, for which post he has repeatedly applied.
CMS has been assured that it was unnecessary to auction the salvaged goods. They could have been placed to credit of the underwriters at the charge value.
Pratt gives details of how the mission accounts now stand. He is distressed at the change in Richard Wilkinson and trusts that Scott's tactful letter will bring him to a better spirit.
He has transmitted to the Admiralty Butscher's account of the smuggling slave trade and asks Butscher to keep watch and report. |