MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Philosopher and political economist.
Letter Signed with autograph postscript as Chairman of the Jamaica Committee to a subscriber ('Dear Sir'), 3 pages 8vo (lightly mounted), London, 12 November 1867. Asking for the remaining payment of a guarantee, and in the postscript giving directions as to how the payment may be made.

'I beg leave as Chairman of the Jamaica Committee to inform you that the Committee find it necessary to apply to their guarantors for the remaining moiety of the sum guaranteed.
 'Part of the sum is required to meet expenses in bringing witnesses from Jamaica & other costs of the proceedings, the remainder is required to enable to Committee completely to perform the duty to which they consider themselves pledged on behalf of the subscribers of trying all the avenues of justice, exhausting all methods of bringing the question before a fair tribunal & obtaining a judicial decision which shall be binding for the future on all administrators of the law. ...'

The Jamaica Committee was established in 1866 with a view to prosecuting Edward Eyre, the Governor of Jamaica, for his reputed excesses in the brutal suppression of the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865. It attracted the support of Charles Darwin (who was a subscriber), Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Lyell, John Bright, Thomas Hughes and Herbert Spencer, although an opposing committee, chaired by Thomas Carlyle, had the support of John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson and Charles Dickens. In the event Eyre was aquitted but was never again offered a post in the colonial service.
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