various letters of which the Nod and
Fates
are noted in Mr Woosnam's
Communication to Captain (as well as
many
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others connected
with the subject of them) and. I respectfully trust, that they will have satisfied Your Lordship of my
Constant
to
readiness
and anxiety to meet and study the wishes of the Naval and Military Commanders as to the appropriation of land in this Colony with the single exception of those points
on
it to be incumbent
which I deemed
on me, for
in the
the specific reasons I assigned in Despatches above named, to await the result of a reference to Her Majesty's Government.
my
In real truth, such has been my solicitude to act as I state
in that
respect,
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that I actually have
_ as shown by the enclosed letter - sanctioned deviations from my
own
proposed plan relative to Military
and Naval ones. whilst as to Naval purposes,
even
I am
at this instant, in total
what the
ignorance of
Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty refer to when Their Lordships
are
pleased to observe in their Secretary's Despatch to Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, of the 3rd of November, "that the " only site which appears from the " Said documents to have been eligible "for that important object has been " otherwise appropriated and disposed "of by the Governor."
I have had frequent
occasion
to mention that when I arrived in China in August 1841, I found
that
in