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to be available, but I am strongly impressed with the belief that, at least some of them might have been saved, had they when first taken ill, been removed on board other ships.
6.- I am not aware what could have induced the Commander-in-Chief to issue under the circumstances the Naval order to which Captain Troubridge was bound to obey; but I have no hesitation in saying that the "Minden" was in 1849, and is at this day capable of receiving 100 men, for it is within my knowledge that since the returns of Her Majesty's Ship "Reynard" from the North in the 19th Ultimo, the greater part of the Crew of that Vessel has been accommodated on board the "Minden" without its having been found necessary to remove any of the Stores from her.
But even if it had been requisite to remove some of the Stores stowed in her main deck, I am assured by the Assistant Commissary General that the greater portion, if not the whole, could have been placed in the Government Stores on shore; at all events they could have been stored in the Barrack from whence the men would have been removed, and that measure had been considered objectionable if