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rendering my presence absolutely requisite to enable Mr Stewart to arrange them.
I have now the honor to forward to Your Lordship documents relating to the Colonial Accounts to the Exchange of the Notifications of the Treaty enumerated in the accompanying list marked A.
These Accounts have, as your Lordship will observe from the closure of the list, been rendered to the Government of India, through the Pay Master of the Expedition, but to provide for their not having been sent home, I send a copy of the Treasurer's Quarterly Account current from 1st June, 1841 to 30th September 1843 inclusive, which will shew the monthly Expense of each Department, as well as the total amount and nature of the Expenditure incurred.
For the purpose of being laid before your Lordship, I have also directed Mr. Stewart to forward to me, at as early a period as possible, the duplicate of the detailed Vouchers, previous to 30th June 1843, supported by duplicate copies of all Warrants, contracts, extracts from correspondence and other documents likely to be of Service in explaining the different charges: and when Your Lordship takes into consideration, how I was situated, during the whole period to which these accounts extend, to the removal by sickness of Mr. Elmstie, the Treasurer, to the Superintendency, the occupation of the late Mr. Morrison and his subsequent...