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20: 334: 113:. Findlay was instructed to investigate the treaties when he returned to the Gambia to take up the role of Lieutenant Governor. In particular, there were concerns over expenses that Hutton incurred, including a significant wine bill that he debited to the colonial government. Upon investigation, it was decided to dismiss Hutton from colonial service. Formerly of Kent Road, London, he died at 108:
On 13 April 1829, Hutton entered into another treaty, with Mansa Kwiri, the King of Wuli. It stated that in return for an annual payment of £200, the King would grant the British full access to and sovereignty over Fattatenda and 100 acres of land surrounding it. When news of these treaties reached
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merchants had agreed to send goods up the river, provided Hutton could make satisfactory local treaties. On 11 April 1829, he agreed to pay £50 to the chief of Kantalikunda if he allowed Bathurst merchants to set up houses and factories in the town.
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in 1820. It was published in London in 1821. It was a part-travelogue, and part-diplomatic chronicle. It is likely that it would have been read in both Britain and in the United States, where British books were often imported.
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Hutton was employed as a writer with the British African Company of Merchants. In 1819, Hutton travelled with
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An Encultured Imperialism: British Travel Writing from the Post‑Napoleonic Atlantic Periphery
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In 1829, Hutton became Acting Commandant of St Mary's Island after the previous Commandant,
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thesis). Bruce Collins, director of studies, and Robbie Aitken, thesis supervisor.
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British writer and colonial administrator (1793–1839)
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Index


Ashanti Empire
Commandant of St Mary's Island
the Gambia
Joseph Dupuis
Cape Coast
Alexander Findlay
Fattatenda
Bathurst
Robert William Hay
Wells


PhD
Sheffield Hallam University
doi
10.7190/shu-thesis-00385
OCLC
1276783558
"White into Black: Seeing Race, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Antebellum America"


"Deaths"
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
ISSN
1356-0069
OCLC
1139966559
British Newspaper Archive
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