CO129-018 - Others - 1846 — Page 187

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Sir,

Mint Office

In Jeuronance of the

16 May 1846.

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the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty' Treasury signified in your letter to the Master of the Mint.

the 9 Inst., acquainting

that Capt. Nevill, late Commander of UMS "Serpent"," and Dep"? Ass! Com: Gen? Routh had been desired to attend at the Mint for. the purpose of giving all the information in their power relating to the fraud which had been committed in the Sycee Lilver brought to the Mint on

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anosmitting Certain Papers, in original, in respect to the receipt and disposal of the 6th Instalment of the Chinese Indemnity and desiring that pom these sources

of information, the circumstances connected with the pand. far as they can be ascertained here may strictly investigated, and the result, in detail, reported to their Lordships Board; in order that instructions

be sent to the

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may Governor of Hong Hong to complete the examination on the spot.

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I have the honor by direction of Sir George Clerk to submit for their Lordships. information, the following observations which hase recured to the Officers of the Mint in the consideration of the subject. –

Amory the papers which have been transmitted to the Master of the Mint is a letter from Dep? Ass! Com: Gend Routh, who aflisted in the receipt of the Treasme at Canton to the Archer dated Dublin 7 May, describing in detail the manner in

our in which the Treasure was

weighed, shroffed, and put into the Bover, which were nailed down and clamped in the presence of himself and other Officers of the Commissariat apicted by the Clerk of the "Castor Frigate,

of opinion that it was

and he is

them

one

many

perfectly impracticable that with so lookers on and precautions, any

of the Boxes could be opened, or the Treasure exchange=

er letter from Captain Revill, the Cornmandu of the "Serpent " has also been received,

addressed to the Admiralty.

Admiralty, and dated Portsmouth the the Instant, wherein, after

stating

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