CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844 — Page 351

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(ulcatta Government Gazette, I discovered

which I was laboring. I therefore had letter No 168

the error under 16

and the Memorandum accompanying it (forming Inclosures Nr 1 and 2 of this Despatch) sent to M. Scales

who at

of acting

once saw the

the propriety on the previous Regulations, adverted to in them, and which he accordingly has since done.

Your Lordship will readily understand how necesary it is to keep open those Channels of Communication (the Ports of (alcatta and Madras) when I

half

mention that at least one

of

the enormous correspondence-

of the foreign Community of China

by those routes;

Soes

and comes

and although, it may be added,

Mercantile

1

in

343

Mercantile Firms and some few Individuals have - Agents or Friends India to whom they might. – enclose their letters to be forwarded_ to England, and elsewhere, yet - that resource is neither open to брегово nine tenths of the Officers of Ster Majesty's Service now stationed in vast number of

China,

nor to a

other persons who would therefore. be absolutely cut off.

in this

distant Région, from any means

of

communication with their families

and friends during

period of each

a considerable

year;

ashew Napels

Nefsels

seldon (or hardly ever ) clear out-

for Bombay direat.

With regard to

letter to

174 - forming molosure N°3 to this Despatch _ I have to state, that

it