2.
3
395
Lquation
in there Seas, and now with his Flay Ship the "Hartford"
lying
in this Starbour, to the effect that the next day, 22nd February, being the Anniversary of Washington's birth, Pear Admiral Bell's Flay Ship would fire salute, and the Lieutenant added an invitation to the Colony to take part in the celebration of
the Anniversary.
2.
a
I replied that the matter, being one of international Courtery, would probably be regulated by precedent, and I was unable at the moment to
say
how precedent
ruled, but I would make search
and in
any
Case
Pear-Admiral
Bell might be satisfied of o
good
3.
will
the occasion.
our
I took the opportunity
in
of seeing Major General buy the afternoon to mention the subject to him, and we
agreed in the
difficulty of forming a precedent
when none existed, so
Knew.
4.
Vice
far
I shortly afterwards
as we
Jaw
Thee Admiral King and placed in his hands extract (§489) from the Colonial Regulations, which provides that unless the Governor and Senior Naval Officer concur in the propriety of any
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