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negligence and incapacity, which he has shown in the management of his office. Still, however, had it been possible to have awaited the result of the representation therein made to Your Lordship on the subject, I should not have exercised the extreme power of suspension given to me by Her Majesty's Instructions. But, I found, as Your Lordship will see by the inclosures to this Despatch, that the Public Service, and the interests of the mercantile Community, as well as the character of the Government itself, suffered materially in consequence of the general want of confidence in Mr. Scully's management.
The irregularities that took place in delivering and forwarding letters, and the extreme, and as I consider improper charges imposed in many instances by him. These proceedings on his part, combined with his personal incivility, have induced the merchants to adopt extensively a system of receiving and sending their letters without transmitting them through the Post Office, a practice very detrimental to the Revenue, and which, from the facility of evading the laws afforded by the power they have of sending their vessels to Macao to clear out for that Port eventually for their intended voyage, it is quite impossible for the Government by any measure of severity to prevent.
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To such an extent has this been carried, that by the last mail sent from here to Calcutta to be forwarded thence to Europe, only three letters went through the Post Office, the rest being transmitted by private hands.
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To such an extent has this been
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