As collected what advices from the 4th for the day from Honduras to that Colony.
More than to inform you that the letter addressed to you on the 16 Jan was by his grace's direction written on the supposition that you were about to start immediately for St Helena, and that his government could not allow so long a period as four months spent in this country as employed by you in travelling from Honduras to that Colony.
The Duke of Buckingham has since decided that the period of your receiving salary must be calculated from the date you had left by the Mail the 1 Feb.
and the Crown Agents...