Post Offer. Coughing
May 1844.
182
I have the lever to acknowledge
the receipt of your
letter of the
27th instant that I hope
No/2 and in reply to state,
on
the Official Return addressed to Sir Henry Pottinger and purporting to have been brought here in the Mail of Athaus on the 17th instant, as mentioned in your letter, will be found on reference
in your
to the stamp of this
office upon
the
back of the return, not to have been received here on the 17th instant, nor to
have been brought by the Mail Athaus, but that it was sent from Bombay by the Hebrides and arrived
To The Honorable F.M. A Bunce
Colonial Secretary
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