the
the 25th and 28th of March, and 1st of April..
Copy of a Letter, N° 140, addressed-
to Mr. Scales on the 1st Instant,
3.
in reply Copy of
to his three letters (!.)
a letter from Mr. Scales dated the 5th of April., enclosing draft of proposed Post Office Regulations.
4. Copy (printed) of the Post Office:
Regulations.
b.
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Copy of a further letter from Mr Scales, dated the 8th of April.
Copy of a letter, N. 159, addressed to Mr Scales on the 16th of April. Memorandum on
Post Office arrangements, drawn-up by Sir Henry Pottinger, forming
Sub-Inclosure to 6.
8.
Notification regarding the
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duties connected with the
Post Office at Macao, Chusan, and the Consular Ports, also forming sub-Enclosure to 6.
from
Your Lordship will see from these Papers, that Mr Scales has found great difficulties in carrying out his Instructions, which were not foreseen, when those Instructions
were framed in England; that he has applied to me for advice and assistance, under those difficulties; and that I have been obliged to
afford assistance, and, also, to authorise him to suspend
many parts of his Instructions, which are, for the present, impracticable,
or would - if
enforced -