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in

on

your

Letter, will be

found

reference to the Stamp of this office upon the back

of

the Return not so have been

received here.

"

on

the 17th,

to have been brought by the

"Maid

of

Athens, but that it

was sent from Bombay by the

"Hebrides"," and arrived here in

the afternoon of the 25th Instant,

having been detained in the

Bombay Post Office.

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I have had similar complaints made to me and have

found

that they have arisen from

that cause.

The complaint made

by

242

by Mess's Dirom Gray MCC, I

beg to inform this Excellency is unjustifiable. About the date

the 19th Instant, the whole detail,

the Post office

and duties

of

27.

had devolved entirely upon myself.

and I can

consequently,

with

confidence state that the Letters for that house were not only

not asked for

On

that

day

beet

were asked for the subsequent

days.

and

day

On

I believe not on the

which they

were delivered.

The fact is, that I did not

Know so whom to send their

Letters. Their names were not in

any of the Lists in the office.

of

I sent one

the Letters to one

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