Admiral,
I am to acquaint you that Lord Grey has regretted my having to inform you that, in consequence of your protracted illness and the delays which would have arisen from it, it has been found necessary to suspend your contemplated appointment of Superintendent of Convicts in Western Australia, and his Lordship much therefore considers the letters addressed to you on this subject as cancelled.
[This had better be in a separate letter as it relates to a different colony. It must mean that the letters had been addressed to him both at Ceylon and ...]
#KP
The Letters having returned to the Office, Grey has decided that nothing further is needed.
Copy to dreads 29 Apr 4/50.
19ft with for 2440/50.
Earl Grey
La de Je
RECEIVED APR 22 1850
193, Jermyn Street, April 21st 1850.
My Lord,
In compliance with instructions received from His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, I have the honor to report my arrival in this country yesterday morning, the 20th. I beg leave to forward the duplicate despatch No. 55, which was entrusted to my charge.
With reference to a communication your Lordship was kindly pleased to make to me at Malta about the charge made against my half-pay, I would only add to my first letter on the subject that as I was confined to bed for two months previous to my departure, more work may have been...
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