receipt of Your Lordship's despatch, I had completed the arrangement mentioned in my despatch of the 12th February, 287 Dictims, and that the Colonial Secretary is, by this mail, remitting
to the Crown Agents £2,500 which I trust will place the Colony again in credit with the Crown Agents, who will thus be enabled to repay the advance
This supposition is of course on the assumption that Her Majesty's Government will see the necessity of relieving the Colony for
a time of further payments on account of the Military Contribution,
and that the final payment on that account, at least for the present, is to be the £5,000 already sent for the Quarter due on the 30th of last September.
3. I must frankly state, indeed must have become evident to Your Lordship, that further Contributions on that account are wholly impossible, and might plunge the Colony into financial difficulties, extrication from which might be impracticable without serious detriment to the Public interests.
I have the honor to be, Your Lordships', Most obedient Servant,
Richard Graves MacDonnell,
Governor.