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his
in the
always doing so, in temporary absence of the Colonial
Secretary, and it seems moreover
that Mod Almada efietro upholds
ME I his right, and desire to do so, but it likewise arrears from Seneral Servous Letter of the 13th distant, that there
letters were
e
signed by me I'Almeda
Cacters because it inercer happened
accidentally to be absent from the To office,
and it was important that they should be dispatched without - delay - General Jeroris moerver adds, that if he had considered
MI Almada & Cartro to have had
any
e
intention of founding a right from his having been permitted to
sign
these letters to officiate
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Colonial Secretary he would not have cauctioned the measure
I must conclude this long and
unsatisfactory dispatch by referring
Dwatch of 277
your
Grace touw
Scccmber 1848 marked Separate
wherein I conveyed to Trish Ency
my opinion of the character of the Gentlemen holding office at Hong tone I then had known Mit Mercer only
uine mouths and
him, and it affords
now to add that
spoke highly of
the pleasure
a more intimate
Knowledge of his character aud habits for a further period of 5 has fully confirmed the
years