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his

in the

always doing so, in temporary absence of the Colonial

Secretary, and it seems moreover

that Mod Almada efietro upholds

ME I his right, and desire to do so, but it likewise arrears from Seneral Servous Letter of the 13th distant, that there

letters were

e

signed by me I'Almeda

Cacters because it inercer happened

accidentally to be absent from the To office,

and it was important that they should be dispatched without - delay - General Jeroris moerver adds, that if he had considered

MI Almada & Cartro to have had

any

e

intention of founding a right from his having been permitted to

sign

these letters to officiate

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Colonial Secretary he would not have cauctioned the measure

I must conclude this long and

unsatisfactory dispatch by referring

Dwatch of 277

your

Grace touw

Scccmber 1848 marked Separate

wherein I conveyed to Trish Ency

my opinion of the character of the Gentlemen holding office at Hong tone I then had known Mit Mercer only

uine mouths and

him, and it affords

now to add that

spoke highly of

the pleasure

a more intimate

Knowledge of his character aud habits for a further period of 5 has fully confirmed the

years