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have made
one
you
the Postscript to mis
private note that its purport must in respect have been totally misapprehended : I never have had the smallest idea that the Commissary-General could find
Room
within the present Commissariat premises for the Naval stores and coals, but I admit I did think it possible that that Officer had taken charge of all Public Stores as ordered by the Treasury minute of the 21st of April 1843 and therefore I troubled you by begging - should the repairs be going on - that you would allow a copy of Coffin's letter to be sent to him with some
of my
Thorn
you
of the observations have offered on the Postscript to my private note I am led to imagine that the minute by the Lords of the Treasury on which my impression was grounded, cannot have been seen by you and therefore I beg to send a copy of it for your perusal and which I request you will be so good as to return when you have done with it.
I have &c.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger.
Cha Ed. Stewart Esqr.
Administrator to the Estates of Messrs Bates & Kerr.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
December 15th 1843.
Sir,
With reference to my letter No: 130 of the 11th of last month in reply to yours of the preceding day I am directed by His