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I was ready to pay any
Bill or Receipt countersigned by Your Lordship, but that if I were held responsible, in any shape, for the Disbursements I felt I had a right to look to the Form of the Estimates (or
(or words to that effect.) I got a third note from Lieutenant Ouchterlony which I acknowledge. I tore up
(as I had done his others in answering them) without even reading it, and there the matter rested until I received Your Lordship's letter
enclosing the memo from that Officer which I considered to be in an improper and irritating tone when speaking of one in my Official situation.
I leave Your Lordship to form your
own Opinion of the Affair after this explanation, and as I have no wish whatever
to protract this correspondence (and have
written this letter solely with a view to
remove the impression your Lordship had formed) I will beg of you not to take the trouble to reply to it.
I have the honour to be
Signed Henry Pottinger
True Copy
Richard Worsham