Colonel Campbell, with request that he will be so good as to have the Military Medical store keeper called. to Say whether he can comply with the whole or any part of it I have t (Signed) Richard Woosnam. Velonel Campbell C.B. H. Ms. 98th Regt ye.. Victoria, Hongheng. 6" 6 January 1844.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 673, of the 3rd Instant, accompanied by the Proceedings of the Committee, which you had, at my request, ordered to assemble, to investigate the complaints made with reference to "Freight Ship Lady Amherst". I have given those Proceedings, as well as the opinion passed by the Committee, my most unbiassed, and careful consideration; and whilst I concur in, and conform to that opinion, yet looking to the circumstances adduced by Mr McQueen, as well as to the heavy loss to which the Owners of the Lady Amherst have been already subjected, and also adverting to the very conflicting and contradictory nature of the evidence which has been brought forward on some of the most important points, I do not think that such a case has been established, as either calls for or would justify withholding any part of the balance of the Tonnage Money for the Koops which is to be discharged by my Bills on the Government of India