would submits that I be permitted to present. Mr.
l in amount to
baldwell, with a donations equal.
that which an officer of the above rank would
be entitled to.
4.
Your Lordship will observe that
as the
the duties performed by Mr. Caldwell have been of a most important and responsible nature, and totally unconnected with his ordinary official avocations; that, he has undergone the same personal fatigue, and danger officers of the staff engaged in this expedition; and I therefore trust, he will be considered to be entitled to that notice and compensation which I now respectfully submit for the favorable attention of Your Lordship.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant, Matthew
(Copy) No. 126.
Nos. 2 & 4.
My Lord,
257
Victoria, Hongkong,
12th September, 1849.
I have the honor to forward
to Your Lordship copy of a Despatch addressed to me by Basilain Treubridge, R. N., Commanding H. M. S. Amazon, and Senior Naval Officer on this station, by the enclosures in which Your Lordship will be informed of the success of Acting Commander Shuckyer (or Sockyer), of Her Majesty's
Steamer Medea, against certain piratical Chinese junks, with which he fell
in the
the 7th
in or near Tienpak, a district
instant near Tienpak, a town on the south coast of the Canton province, some 200 miles to the westward of Hongkong.
The Right Honorable
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B.
&c.,
&c.,