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"enclosing " for 101
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100 men and one
of $ 9,215 for building a barrack
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of $ 8,128-30 for quarters for four officers at Paiwan, and in sanctioning the Expense I beg to bring to Your Lordship's notice the
foregoible necessity for a Battery or Fortification
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" that part of the Island, and to suggest
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advisability of selecting such a site for the
the
Barrack, that it may form a guard to the "Intended Fortification."
I have &c.
This letter to as drafted by my desire,
by Mr. Worsnam
the day
from my anxiety that week
should not be lost, and I actually
signed it when I was
with serious
to my
bed
confined to
illness I can see nothing in it
that in
any
shape; or
any pretence,
sanctions the interpretation which is ascribed
to it in Your Lordship's letter; nor
am I
prepared
I
prepared in the most remote degree to take on myself the blame as to the Troops being sickly from residing in Tents, of which fact I was
utterly ignorant until Your Lordship's letter, to which I am replying,
came to hand - Was Your
Lordship considered that my letter just quoted!
did
Convey such stipulation as has now been attached to it (but which I repeat scarcely see.)
would have been
and I will even add-
considerate and kind; for Your Lordship to have
it
referred the point amongst the hundreds of
others which
were
referred,
and to which I
gladly and immediately afforded replies according to the best of my judgment and abilities.
letter so
far
I
despond of Your Lordship's as the question of tBarracks having
Escaped my memory extends, and the observations I shall make on the remainder of
it