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Projekt	Dansk Vestindien
Arkivskaber	Generalguvernementet
Arkivserie	Kopibog for skrivelser til kongen
Indhold	1816 - 1826

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Folio number	12

Report
Report number	No. 7
Date	04-01-1817
Copybook number	25
Main text	To the King! I must hereby most humbly report that the commander of the 2nd company, captain v. Schumicken passed away by death the 30th of December, last year and was on that same day buried with military honors. His illness consisted of convulsive seizures.- Until the will of Your Majesty is made known, I have employed brevetted first lieutenant v. Keemke as the only real first lieutenant present, v. Seidelin is working for me as adjutant and it would benefit neither the business nor him if, possibly for a short time, he had to leave the position as adjutant and private secretary to head the company.- As commander of 2nd company, on the other hand, since, when considering what has occurred with captain v. Chabert, I do not under any circumstance dare to propose him for employment in the West Indies, I aught most humbly to recommend lieutenant v. Seidelin who is a capable officer and in all respects well suited to command the company.

Report
Report number	No. 8
Date	04-01-1817
Copybook number	26
Main text	To the King! Most humble report! In order to get ahead of the usual exaggerating rumors concerning what is happening here, I haste, by way of England, to advise Your Majesty about a disorder which has occurred these days. At a ball Christmas Day an altercation occurred among whites of the inferior class, wherein, an intoxicated free colored man, who had forced his way in, was so severely beaten that he died the following day. The instigator was immediately arrested on the day after Christmas; however, before the other accomplices could be jailed, several, and among them innocent whites, were seized by a mob of free coloreds, who considered them implicated, mistreated and dragged to the prison yard, with exclamations and threats, that were to a supreme degree disturbing. The mob, however, disbanded by itself and since, on the day after Christmas and New Year’s Day, 2 to 3000 somewhat intoxicated slaves are in town, I did not wish to give these occasion to observe an example of resistance against white authority which, considering the mood of the moment, was possible; however, although there is no doubt that we could with considerable ease suppress all the force

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