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I further inclose a copy of a letter which I received from the Comptoir's Superintendent here setting forth his ignorance of the practice alluded to; regret to say I am unable to understand after my representations to him on the 24th January, to which I at once replied, (copy inclosed) and since then I have not heard anything of the matter, until I saw the notice in the Newspapers.
As I considered a partial publication of the correspondence is likely to mislead the Public, I addressed a letter to Wix Sutherland (Copy inclosed) protesting against the wording of the notice, and the incompleteness of the correspondence given to the Public, to which I received a reply (copy inclosed) of the same curt nature the Comptoir's Agent here is apt to give, and which I judge to be altogether aside from the question brought under that gentleman's notice; here I ought to explain that the object of my protest was to let him understand that the notice in its present form was offensive and incorrect, because it says that "some misapprehension" has occurred in consequence of officers "on board the Company's Vessels refusing "to receive letters &c., &c." I do not think the Community were ever under the impression that the