be carried

of any year may of the account of Colonial Ways & Means for the

rest; - an arrangement Which in Earl Grey's opinion may serve

to prevent a recurrence of

Thet. I fear that confusion, & interchange of the real financial

position of the Colonial finances – which has

caused so much perplexity.

10. Snatchy,

W. A. C. Torrens 30 Aug.

immediate.

1219.

Will der. Surviving.

150

with draft. No 56. Date 15 Sep? filed to for?

& another to Treasury) both cancelled even:

naturally

I think it will be understood.

understood from the particular explanations I have made then

drafts to embody that it was

impossible to adopt in them the exact tenor of W. Hawes, minute, which Lord Grey desires to have followed, but which assigns facts & figures for which I can find

no warrant. I have, however, done my best to catch the general

drift of the minutes, & to communicate this to these drafts.

With regard to the supposition that this department will be open to the charge

of not answering

Parliament for not despatching

earlier - I would beg to point out that it

was totally impossible to give

an answer,

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