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The Palatine Emigration. 



cerned in the Newfoundland fishery, intend to employ 500 more in 

 their service. 



Dec. 29. Col. Hunter (new gov. of N. Y.) designs next week to 

 embark for his government of New York : and most of the Palatines 

 remaining here goe with him to people that colony. 



1710, May 25. Mr. Ayrolles, the Brit. Sec. at the Hague is gone 

 for Rotterdam to distribute her majesties charity to 800 poor Pala- 

 tines returning home, being 5 florins to each person. 



July 27. The first ticket of the state lottery, drawn yesterday, en- 

 titled the fortunate holder to £50 per annum, and fell upon Mr. 

 Walter Cocks of Camberwell, who so generously supported the 

 Palatines last year, and has this year the best crop of corn for 

 quantity in all the county of Surrey." 



These extracts are abundantly confirmatory of the con- 

 clusion that this sudden irruption of thirteen thousand 

 people, for whom no previous provision had been made, 

 occasioned great embarrassment as to what disposition 

 should be made of them. The Palatines had been flattered 

 with the expectation they should be sent to one colony in 

 a body, without expense to themselves. 



But there were really no parties ready to fulfill, such a 

 flattering promise, and the wisdom and humanity of the 

 authorities were alike called into exercise to devise the 

 best plans for disposing of such a large and helpless 

 mass of strangers. The commission appointed by the 

 queen, of which the archbishop of Canterbury and the lord 

 high chancellor were members, 1 had only been ordered 

 to distribute the charities and settle the emigrants in the 

 kingdom : But when the distribution of alms commenced, 

 there was so much murmuring among the people, 2 that 

 the commissioners, thirty-five days after their appointment, 

 issued an order looking to the transportation of the whole 

 of them either to Ireland or the plantations. The commis- 



1 One member besides, was Henry William Ludolph, nephew of Job Lu- 

 dolph, the celebrated Ethiopian historian, who died January, 1710, aged 54. 



2 Calamy'8 Life and Times. 



