to attend to the suggestions of the Naval Committee
of whose Proceedings (as well as those of the Military Committee) he has been furnished
with Copies .
I have &c.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger.
His Excellency
&c.
No
proposed arrangement, I beg to suggest for Your Excellency's consideration, that Her Majesty's Steamer Vixen might perhaps go up and bring this Detachment.
I have to beg You will favor me by returning the Enclosures with
your reply, the purport of which I will communicate to Lord Saltoun.
I have &c.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
&c.
No 25.
Major General
Vice Admiral Sir William Parker G. C. B.
Aboard
Victoria 20th July 1843.
I have the honor to enclose an original
letter and its Enclosures, which I have received
from Major General Lord Saltoun
recommending that a company of the 4th Regiment Madras Native Infantry
should be brought from Tinghae, to assist in
performing the Garrison Duties of this Colony, and as there is no political objection to the
proposed
The Lord Saltoun K. C. B & G. C. H.
&c.
&c.
Victoria. 22nd July 1843.
My Lord.
With reference
to the concluding
passage of Your Lordship's letter of the 29th Ultimo – to which I generally replied in mine
of