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my opinion that no sort of public good can arise from additional correspondence with the Rear Admiral on this subject, I do not intend to carry it further. In communicating to Your Lordship this resolution, I however, feel it to be due to myself to very respectfully, though explicitly, solicit, that Her Majesty's Government will be pleased to consider
me
relieved from any
any future laying responsibility as to
that
part of the City of Victoria to which these letters immediately refer; and I likewise deem it right to mention, which I do with the utmost deference, that should instructions
shortly from England
reach
me
for any
of a Church, or other of the Public
the erection Buildings which
are
are
so much required in this
in this Colony, and for which I had sites in the immediate vicinity of the
Stores in question, that I will take upon myself to suspend those Instructions, since I should esteem it to be ill-advised, as well as almost
a waste
of
any expense upon them under existing circumstances
Adverting to that part of Sir
Thomas Cochrane's letter in which he
speaks of the location now in possession of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co (and from which I infer that it is the one alluded to in the Despatch from the Lands Commissioners of the Admiralty to Rear Admiral Sir William Parker dated the 3rd of November, 1843)
I may here explain,
that that position was sold to the
above