the Post Office,
where.
a
regular
Letters &c.
and sure doing of t
sch
importance both to the
Public Service, and to the inter-
ests of a large Mercantile
Community such as exists
in this Colony.
Shame tr
Aguih H.H.A. Bruce
Colonial Secretary.
P.S. His Excellency has perused the enclosed Complaints of
the same nature, from Mr. of the
Attorney General, Sir John Cochrane, and
instructs me
& call upon you
"to explain it at the same time
Post Office,
Đang đông.
28 May
1844.
241
Sir
I have the honor to
acknowledge
the receipt of your
Letter
of
the 27th Instant No.
42, and in reply to state that I hope the official Return addressed to Sir Henry Pottinger,
and purporting
to have
been brought here by the mail
in the "Maid
of
Athens"
on
the 19th Instant, as mentioned
F. W. A. Bruce
in
To Bruce
The Honble
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