in China.
Before the next Mail arrives, arrangement will be made and announced for the Postage being recovered before the letters are delivered.
I have &c.
Signed; Henry Vellinger Major General.
The Lord Saltown. K. C. B. G. C. H.
My Lord,
Macao 30th August 1843.
By the last Mail from England, I received a Packet containing Books &c, from the Colonial Office which various circumstances have prevented my examining till this day, and on doing so I found in it the letter and its accompanying Minute to Your Lordship's address, which I have honor to forward.
I have &c,
(Signed) Henry Pottinger.
The Lord Saltown K. C. B. & G. C. H.
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1972.
My Lord,
Macao 6th September 1843.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's Letter No. 401 of the 4th Instant, and to return its enclosures.
I was perfectly aware of the private letter I wrote to Lieutenant Ouchterlony in the early part of April, having a copy of it before me, and I should have been quite ready to have sanctioned (as I did the 4000 planks) any expence for additional Timber that that Officer had recommended or submitted, at the time, or even subsequently, but no allusion is made to this wood in ...