CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844 — Page 187

Singapore received by the Sesostres, informes

that his official letters forwarded. by the "Acbar had been sent

me,

1 from Bombay

Overland to Calcutta to await His

Excellency's arrival there- consequently

commands he

any

amith on

This

от

any

may

honor

ane

other subjeck

Her

resulting prome directions from Majesty's lovernment, of the date of

November, must still be some weeks ( in reaching

ne.

по

In the mean time Sposass ne sort of authority to incur any expenditure beyond that which is absolutely and unavoidably necessary for the efficiency of the squadron under still less to enter upon

of erecting

new

Command.

my an undertaking

puzely

Storehouses for temporary

purposes, or the heavy expense of removing a great mass of valuable

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provisions and some thousand tons of Coal to places where they could not permanently hesitation in

remains - for I have saying, there is not single unoccupied spot upon this side of the bland fit for a haval Establishment ; and to the place

no

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av

the South side, which I have been inclined to advocate, I gather from

the documents

you

have forwarded.

to me, the bevernment object

There is unquestionably

one

position upon this side of the Soland- where an Establishment is

-

arow

formning by the House of Messrs Jardine "Matheson of on the whole better calculated for a naval Establishment and at the same time reconciling completely military objects, than other spot in the

the Colony, buch

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provisions

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