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I shall be obliged by your informing me what this decision is, for as yet I have received no official information on the subject.
I have also to request that I may be permitted to peruse this Despatch: I am led to infer from the tone of Your letter, and also that of the extract from Mr. Custers' letter, that the latter gentleman has at least been made acquainted with the Contents of this Dispatch, if he has not been favoured with a perusal of the entire document.
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I need hardly say that I consider Mr. Anstey's indirect expression of regret to be very far indeed from being satisfactory - Nay, I do not hesitate to declare that I feel it to be an additional insult, and I am perfectly astonished at the conclusion of your letter, in which you remark that His Excellency has instructed you to say he considers this a sufficient apology, there not being one single word of Apology in the extract from Mr Anstey's letter with which you have furnished me.