of it or not. The Copy of the Colonial Secretary's Letter is my reply "forward to you.
The Secretary General proceeds by this mail to England on sick leave, it is rumoured he will not return. Should such be the case and my applications be forwarded to this Master General that the Commanding Royal Engineer might certify that
“my Ordnance duties, and the uncertainty of my health continuing here good after two attacks of fever, will prevent me accepting any Colonial appointment, and That I consider, should an office of Royal Engineers be required to preside over the Civil Engineer Establishment, of their New Colony, that it would be more advantageous both for the Colonial and Ordnance interest that an officer of the Corps should be selecting, rather than to call upon the Commanding Royal Engineer to provide for it.
(Signed) Ed? Aldrich. Major
Royal Engineers.
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