CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 293

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"enclosing " for 101

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100 men and one

of $ 9,2.15 for building a barrack

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of $ 8,128-30 for quarters for four officers at Paiwan, and in sanctioning the Expense I beg to bring to Your Lordship's notice the

foro i ble necessity for a Ballery or Fortification

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" that part of the Island, and to suggest

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advisability of selecting such a site for the

the

Barrack, that it may form a quard to the "Intended Fortification."

I have vc.

This letter to as drafted by my desire,

by Mr. Worsnam

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day

from my anxiety that wen

should not be lost, and I actually

signed it when I was

with serious

to my

bed

confined to

illness I can see nothing in it

that in

any

shape; or

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any pretence,

sanctions the interpretation which is ascribed

to it in Your Lordship's letter; nor

arr

prepared

I

prepared in the must remote degree to take on myself ista of the imputed blame as to the Troops being sickly from residing in Tents, of which fact I was

utterly ignorant until Your Lordship's letter, to which I um replying,

to hand -Wad Yo

Carre

Your

Lordship considered that my letter just quoted!

did

Convey such stipulation as has now been attached to it (but which Trepeat Scarest see.)

would have been

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and I will even add-

considerate and kind; for Your Lordship tohave

it

referred the point tiine, amongst the hundreds of

others which

were

referred,

and to which I

gladly and immediately afforded replies according to the best of my judgment and abilites.

letter so

far

I

despond of Your Indships as the question of tBarracks having

Escaped meg animory extends, and the observations I shall anake on the remainder of

it