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to be available, but I am strongly impressed with the belief that,

at least some

of them might have been saved, had they

when first takers ill, beew removed on board Shise

ships.

6.-

I amo

not aware

what

Commander-in-

Chief

could have indused the

to issue under the circumstances

Naval

and which Captain Tronbridge

the

order

to which I allude,

bound to obey;

is of

Course

but I have no hesitation in

deak

f

Jaying

that the

main

1849, and

the "Minden" was in

is at this day capable of

receiving 100 mew, for it is

within my

knowledge that

since the returns of ther Majesty's

ނ

Ship's "Reynard' from the North in the 19th Ultimo, the greater

part of the Crew of that Veforb has been accommodated

on

board the "Minden" without its

having been found necessary to

any of the Store's from her,

remove

but even if it had been requisite

to remove

stowed

in

on

Some of the Stores

her main seak,

I

assured by the assistant Commissary General that the greater portion, if not the whole, could have been plased

the Government Stores on shores:_ at all events they could have been stored in the Barrack from whence the men would have been removed, and, that measure had been considered objectionable

if