details of your office, together with stamps, stationery & and other furniture allowed to you
You have been sufficiently apprised by the letters addressed to you by the direction of His Excellency of the grounds on which this step has been taken. After the Establishment had been enforced according to what you yourself fixed as requisite to carry out its duties, His Excellency hoped that its inefficiency would have ceased with what you alleged as its cause. The reverse of this has been the case, and His Excellency has felt himself obliged to adopt this step, without awaiting the result of the reference already made to the home Authorities in consequence, among many other complaints, of the cases, the particulars of which appear in the letters forwarded to you from Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Mr Carter, and Mr Strachan.
Your answer to the first admits the gross negligence of which the Admiral complained, as so detrimental to the public Service, and as to the doubt you attempt to cast upon the charge of closing your Office before the proper hour arrived, His Excellency directs me to say that he sees nothing to warrant you in expressing it and His Excellency is not surprised at the inefficient manner in which the business of your office is conducted after the irregular practices which your duties lead you to bring forward in your reply, in proof of your desire to accommodate individuals.
To Mr Carter's letter no reply has been received, nor to the particular instance of improper charges of which he complains
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