"of Peracy in the neighbourhood of Ting Ha, providing Officers and men for them from my
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2. I beg you will inform
the Lord's Commissioners of the Admiralty that there
is no boat now in Gren Reserve, fit for service having already commissioned
all the available ones as reported in my letter number 44 of 3rd January last, still leaving short of one 80ft. Propellor.
Neither do I think I could provide Officers or men for them just now, as their Lordships will perceive by my Letter of this date No. 113 that some difficulty will be experienced in forming a crew for the Riflemen,
but I shall endeavour to make such a disposition of the dynasty under My Command as will leave a dispatch sloop, and three if not four Gun Boats for service at Hong Kong temporarily.
As a measure until I have the means of commissioning or hear further from their