MAURITIUS -- Autograph letter signed by 'Lorquet, Professeur au Collège-Colonial' to Robert Townsend Farquhar (Governor of Mauritius), Port Louis, 28 December 1816, begging the concession of 'Ile-ronde' [Round Island], intending to place 'un Blanc avec quelques Noirs, pour cultiver le peu de bonne terre qui s'y trouve, et y élever, s'il se peut, des animaux domestiques', signed twice by Farquhar and with an appended legal counsel in pencil, rejecting the request, 3 pages, folio; Document subscribed with name of James Buller (apparently a copy), 'At the Court at Windsor', 22 June 1829, announcing a royal decree abolishing all legal restraints on those not of European birth in Mauritius, 2½ pages, folio; Printed notice, 'Police Office', Port Louis, 21 July 1832, announcing the dispatch of James Calder Stewart and his servant on the Nancy for Bordeaux, one leaf, folio (worn at margins); and two letters signed by British consuls on the island of Réunion, the first by A.N. Annesley, the second by C.L. St John, to Sir John Pope Hennessy (Governor of Mauritius), 10 January 1883 and 23 May 1884, complaining of the unreliability and insecurity of the Post Office in Réunion, 9 pages, folio. The first of these documents dates from the earliest period of British rule, after the concession of Mauritius under the Treaty of Paris in 1814. The flora of Round Island, about 15 miles north of Mauritius, was devastated by the introduction of rabbits and goats in the early 19th Century.