397
is love, to err.
on
the
safe
side by keeping minutes beyond
the
the office open a few time appointed for closing; and I did not anticipate the possibility of a complaint on this point : It would be highly satisfactory
to me to know what
person
about my office answered to the Officer who called for the letters and what
did call on
office
All the
that morning. "Agincourt "letters had been the
evening
was
in this instance, it is not always a
veritable account - wasted time. The
Admiral does not hear of my attempts
accommodation.
nor
perhaps
has he of my
navy
repeated offers to adopt any system which might tend to the convenience of the
confident of unavoidable denials and refusals.
He hears I am
instances
He hears too only
in those instances...
me
more isolated
side of the question
I doubt not that he
did not hear that Naval officers did
on that
the
before passed before an officer from vessel They were taken from the Office
into
my private
room. A clerk waited
upon him with them and after occupying upwards of
in look
an hour, at such a time too,
looking through the letters, a mere
of perhaps 400
hand-ful, out
only
were taken. I am reluctant: and have been
10 to
complain
but I have
reason
to
very day, viz:
they do almost
on
almost
every
hours after
the 7th Instant, and that
every day, and at hour from Sun rise till
sun set. receive their letters - almost whenever the private business of the office does not press too hard to
upon
them "T. O. M's"
admit of attention. have been daily taken for the postages
think that though "attending at the Port Officer
was
and
every attempt
at accommodation
has