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eminences so much
reduce those hills or eminence
as to obviate, from their natural situations, their commanding the position
which I am remarking. In conclusion, I take the liberty to disclaim to Your Lordship having in any dispatch of the 10th instant any personal allusion to
intended
Vice Admiral Sir William Parker, I have
no doubt,
seen that of all the Senior Officers of Her Majesty's Naval Service who have offered their opinions on this Colony, with the exceptions of the Committee which selected Navy Bay, in the first instance, have arrived at the same conclusion, and as Sir William Parker never, to the best of my
recollection
of any either verbally or in writing mentioned "Messrs" Jardine Matheson & Co.'s location to me as a desirable one, I am, as I stated,
quite
quite at a loss to conjecture the spot to which allusion was made in the dispatch from the Lords of the Admiralty as having been "appropriated" and disposed of by the Governor :
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Most Obedient Humble Servant
Bonham
P.S. In reading
over this Despatch, I perceive that it might possibly be inferred, that I had understood from
Sir Thomas Cochrane's letter that that Officer had suggested - however remotely - that Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co.'s location might be still within the reach of Government. I therefore beg to say, that that was not the case. I
have