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open to sale, was absolutely required for its military defence, as suggested in our Report of 28th July last, that that question should be submitted for the consideration of the secretary.
for tar. The result, as we gather from Sia S. Rouming's dispatch, was that he was authorized, with the sanction of the Admiral on the Station, to resume the Land in question.
3 On notifying his intention to do so to the Proprietary Officers, the Governor was informed by them that they had received instructions from the War Department to purchase a considerable portion of the Land in the neighbourhood of the battery at Bluff Point. The portion which it is proposed to purchase is marked on a plan accompanying these papers, and includes a property purchased 4 years ago by Mr. Stephens.
Sin kouring declares the demand of the Proprietary Officers to be "unreasonable," and expresses hope that Her Majesty's Government will approve of his refusal to comply with it. We would submit that as the propriety of acceding to or resisting that demand depends principally on Military grounds...