CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844 — Page 104

"inconvenience to any persons."

"recasioning", now beg.

I

to submit to Your

to 3.

Lordship the Correspondence which has 5:125-

passed between the Rear Admiral-

and this Government on this subject.

It will show Her Majesty's Government, that the Naval and Military Authorities had the first choice of the locations on this Island; and- will also show, that the arguments which Sir Thomas Cochrane grounds his refusal (even supposing that they

admissible in such

in such a matter)

were

are

altogether

erroneous.

I on

I have the house to be,

My Lord,

Your most obedient Humble Servant, Bruny Itt in

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