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that "Navy Bay" had been selected by the three Senior Post Captains of Royal Navy on this Station.
that even with respect to that no distinct refusal.. position I gave I stated the strong objections then I saw to it's subsequently applied
That location was for by Vice Admiral Sir William Parkin, and specially reserved both before and after the conclusion of Treaty, and it was only on my return to this place in December 1842, that I learned that Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane had, I believe with the consent of Mr Johnston (the then Deputy-Superintendent) had Naval Stores and Coals landed and deposited at the position of this to which in the centre the Lords City to of the Admiralty allude by the name of the Middle Stony (Stores?)
My former letters will show that made a which Dock Yard and Coal-Depôt, and looking to Your Lordship's original instructions, I conceive that I should have failed to Your in my duty, had I omitted to point-out in the most distinct and forcible terms, that it's appropriation to those objects would have been a perpetual and irreparable detriment to the Colony, an opinion which I have in not met with one voice, not even dissentient amongst those who have proposed that it should be allotted to the Navy. fact, the thing is so obvious, that there cannot be two opinions upon the Naval and Military it and as Authorities