to the first despatch, till the second, which were

Bohair wrote me was

orir

masalis air

was coming. possession. This was not the case, till the 25th July. And then the subject found

to be complicated - extending as it did to the

become

-

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to cover arrears, which in truth amounted to

£70,000. to search out and

remedy this - Other causes of the confusion, could be no easy or rapid matter, & I shall not be quite confident that we have even

righted the accounts of Hongkong until it is found how succeeded, unless the draft to fin. Fund

English settlement - & involving rep

be shown to her. Brande & Mr. Hamilton are at with the Treasury in the Audit Office, & did Joint der

Davis, _ I think conferences & discussions with the treasury that it was hopeless to dispatch it effectually by the 20th August _ The west mail day.. also far to point out. that all this coup the manner

the Houghing finances has in the main

been

the

a copy of

it will be quite safe also, as Lord Grey has desired that he be consulted.. I think

of committing die Zus. Davis should be - to send him the draft to for C. Ereveland no other person whatever. There are things

of the letters - which might aggravate the controversy between him and his machinations.

said in some

arising from the impotence of this Department no other paper relating in 1844,- when it would not wait for completion of the necessary investigation of accounts, resolved offhand-

Mera

...-gross- to take a Part. " Vote of $80,000

a

provoke

his po duas

on

The ou

& other Hongking officials on the ther

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