Guide to the Papers of Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1685
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Pelham, Thomas, Baron Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
- Title
- Papers of Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1797 - 1803
- Collection Number
- M1685
- Extent
- 10 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
A small group of letters referring to the convict hulks, transportation, the case of Sir Henry Hayes, and the separation of the Colonial and Home Offices in 1801. Correspondents include H. Addington, Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick, Sir Charles Bunbury and J. Hunter.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the British Library. For more information visit: How I use the images I order?-The British Library [https://www.bl.uk/help/how-can-i-use-the-images-i-order].
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1981. (AJCP reel M1685). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. Collection Reference: Add MS 33100-33130. For further information see Thomas Pelham Chichester at the British Library (http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000001484.0x0002c8).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2257988] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Convict ships; Convicts; Fitzpatrick, Sir Jerome; Great Britain. Colonial Office; Great Britain. Home Office; Hayes, Sir Henry; Hunter, John, Capt.; Pelham, Thomas, 2nd Earl of Chichester; Politicians: Britain; Transportation of convicts
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 367, p140.
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Pelham (1756-1826), Baron Pelham (summoned 1801), 2nd Earl of Chichester (succeeded 1805).
Educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University. M.P. 1783-90, 1795-1801. Originally a Whig, he supported the Pitt Government after 1794. Surveyor-General of Ordnance, 1782-83, Chief Secretary of Ireland 1783-84, 1795-98, Home Secretary in Addington Government 1801-3, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1803-4, Postmaster-General, 1807-26.
Item Descriptions
Series. General and Official Correspondence, 1797 - 1803
39 itemsVolume VII (File Add MS 33106)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
R. Griffith to Pelham, 11 July 1798 (Item ff. 4-7)
United Ireland rebellion; treaty between Lord Cornwallis and rebels involving transportation of leaders.
W. Elliot (Dublin) to Pelham, 30 July 1798 (Item ff. 33-34)
Banishment of United Ireland leaders to any part of world other than Africa or Botany Bay.
Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick to W. Baldwin, 18 November 1798 (Item ff. 138-39)
Spread of fever to convict hulks at Portsmouth.
Volume VIII (File Add MS 33107)
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick to [unknown], 30 July 1801 (Item ff. 200- 3)
Security of convicts sent from Ireland to N.S.W.; health and treatment of convicts on transports.
H. Addington to Pelham, 2 August 1801 (Item ff. 212-13)
Transfer of colonial affairs from Home Office.
Pelham to H. Addington, 3 August 1801 (Item ff. 219-20)
Dissatisfaction with transfer of colonial affairs.
Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick to Pelham, 25 August 1801 (Item ff. 341-45)
Health of convicts; diet and clothing; selection of ships; Fitzpatrick's work as Inspector-General of Prisons and Hospitals.
Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick to Pelham, 27 August [1801] (Item ff. 372-73)
Seeks interview; sends correspondence with J. King.
Volume IX (File Add MS 33108)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
P. Colquhoun to Pelham, 19 November 1801 (Item ff. 299-309)
Sends memo on improvements to national police; recommends adoption of Bentham's penitentiary system; expense of hulks and transportation.
B. Forde to Pelham, 30 November 1801 (Item ff. 380-81)
St. John's Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, more suitable than N.S.W. for less hardened convicts.
W.M. Pitt to Pelham, 5 December 1801 (Item ff. 411-18)
Sends memo on inquiry into state of prisons; cost of maintaining convicts on hulks.
Volume X (File Add MS 33109)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
J. Bentham to Sir Charles Bunbury, 9 August 1802 (Item ff. 331-36)
Encloses notes on his paper 'Panopticon v. N.S.W.'; willing to send full paper to Pelham; D. Collins' history of N.S.W. substantiates Bentham's fears.
Volume XI (File Add MS 33110)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
B. Forde to Pelham, 18 October 1802 (Item ff. 38-42)
Sends papers on enforcement of law and punishment of crime; ineffectiveness of transportation to N.S.W.
Letterbook of correspondence between Lord Hardwicke and Pelham, 1801 - 1802 (File Add MS 33114)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence of King George III and Pelham, 1801 - 1804 (File Add MS 33115)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Miscellaneous Official and Public Papers, 1770 - 1816 (File Add MS 33122)
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
List of tradesmen, labourers etc. who sailed to N.S.W. as convicts on Minerva and Minorca, 21 June 1801 (Item ff. 61-62)
Memo proposing convicts be sent regularly to N.S.W.; French ambitions in Pacific; suggests corps of artificers be established at N.S.W. (Item ff. 71-76)