be required to cover the current Expenses on account
Military
of
This haval
or Civil Serviers in China,
are to be retained by you, and that the residue is to be remitted to
Calcutta to be disposed of in such manner as this Governt may be pleased to direct.
You will cause an Account to be kept of the sums applied in China to the several devices above specified, & of the balances remitted to Calcutta, & you will transmit the same to this
Office at the expiration of every
six months.
I am (signed) Aberdeen
Copy
5
Keybord,
Treasury Chambers.
2 January 1843.
I have it in command from the Lords Commr of His Majesty's Treasury to request you
will state to the Earl of Aberdeen that my Lords have had under their consideration the mode in which it may be most for the public interest to dispose of the large amount of Silver Bullion which has been or may from time to time be received in China under the Treaty of
Peace recently concluded with the Govr of that Country. It appears from Sir H. Pottinger's despatch of the 29th of August that the 1st Instalment amounting to about six millions of dollars of payment by the Chinese Authorities was at that date, and that it was
in the course
of her intention in conformity with the Instructions originally given to him to send the whole of that sum to England
in one or more
of H. Mis ships, Their Lordships therefore apprehend that no instruction now to be given
can
affect