Admiralty
belonged
Communicating with the 55th Regt to which corps The Breunan at the time the money order was originally issued by the Adjutant that the said order was delivered from the office of the Brigade Major Theen's Troops Bengal to Caskill of the 55th Regt,
to China bought it
I then addressed a letter to the Brigade Major detailing the circumstances of the Case, and requesting from the Statute Banker who issued the Money order, whether that document had ever been presented for payment in Calcutta and if so, to whose order the Money was paid.
A vicious time for reply having elapsed without hearing from the Brigade Major, I requested my brother, Capt. W. J Bruce of the 18th Regt, who left England a few months ago for Bengal to call at the Brigade office on his arrival and use his best endeavours to procure for me the required information.
Up to the present time, however, I have not heard either from Bruce or the Brigade Major; and I can only account for the silence of the latter officer, upon the supposition that the Native Bankers in Calcutta who issued the order having been obliged to make a reference on the subject to the House in China.
It appears that John Brennan belonged to the 75th Regt at the time he was transported. I applied to the War Office for information as to whether any balance appears opposite his name, in the ton of feeling Return of that corps, which might sanction the inference that Major Fine made over the Money order to the Regiment. I was informed that the balance John Brennan's credit in the Regimental Return only amounted to 4 pence.
In my former letters I have expressed my conviction...