CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 333

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"with" a "Memo : for the signature of numerous "officers, in an open envelope

The Lisnt Gensial

adopts the

opinion

- The Court; and desires to express his extreme

disapprobation of your conduct, in shining the note to Mafor (azator. and sending it afterwards to be copied for circulation

your duty to obtain, the

It was, he conceis,

solitution of the proprity said to have brew taken from Contoon, in such as

manner ao

should neither unnecessarily offend the feelings of The Officers,

nor violate the secusy of a private note, Evidently intended for your own prasl only . The immediate consequence of your indiscution nas a series of most improper answers from the majority of the Officers who signed the Circular. and the further results, a report from HCC. The former, to the - :Secutary of State for the Colonies, highly prejudicial toyourself and to the Officers Employed on Duty at Conloon, diciting from the Minister for War a sure animadversion, and the mass to institute the enquiry nor endid.

The

smallest exrase of discretion your part, nould have rendered all this

unnec

recessary, and the Leutenant General cannot but express surprise and resset,

that

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that your just purets mas at fault on this

occasion.

of the

The Leeut. Smeral strongly censures the spirit and nording of the F. C. No 2 of this 28th April, in which you impute to one Offious lately employed at Conloon, the apprarand in a local paper of a private note addressd toyourself when in fact the publication of that Letter arose

from your

-cution.

own indis-

:'re 083 The injustice and impropriety of the troms

90. mad by you in

by you in reference to the supposed delingarnt must have been wident to you on the publication of SO. no 4 of may 7: by the Officer who succeeded of the farrison.

Any

-mand

Monge Holy Moth Willowy Kecreting

- you in com-

Thare the honor to be

Sir,

most Obedient trvant

Zone e

(signed)

W. S. Pakmham

D. At Genti