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RECERED

My Lord,

APR 23 1847

Victoria, Hongkong,

13th February, 1847

I have the hener to reply to Your

Lordship's Despatch Nr 35 of October 17. on the subject of the Colonial gun-beat ev

cruiser

or

It is satisfactory to have receved

Your Lordship's sanction to the employment

one

of this pessel as an er

experiment, in which light "I had deemed it right to limit the trial to

vessel only . As some report is expected from me of the result, I am glad to be able to forward the enclosed account of her services,

which for the time are

are considerable

The official note from Heying, enclosed

36

in my Despatch & 3 of 1845 to Lord

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey.

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