that month the
day
which
it as
Your stated in my
letter of the 17 Dec it
he Embarked for
The Colony, and requesting
for
Sir J. Pakington's
information
an explanation in respect
of the difference of
dates and to
inform you,
The Beach
in reply
that
on the 28 Sept announced
his intention to state that
he intended
to embark
from this Country for
Hongkong.
on the Steamer
Fusipar :
of the 20th of Oct
& that the Duke
of Bentinck concluded that he had carried that
intention into effect.
His Grace's Correspondents
had no certain information as to Beach's
movements,
but he
presumes
the fact
That instead
of leaving England by Southampton on the
20 Oct as
he had
intended for Beach
left on the 24th
(