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vicinity should be

occasionally

visited, which would not involve

the absence of a Gun-bout from the

Harbor

for

twelve hours.

6. I have up self made the

airciut

of

imjeeef

The Bland in

small

Steam launch in five hours.

7.

There have been two Gm-boats at anchor in the Harbor since

I assumed the Government (sometimes three) together with large refach, so that I cannot appreciate the diffiently of detaching

ferer. hours

hours occasionally.

Inze

any

me

for a

Neither

very

purpose of carrying out the

for which I have

trivial service

asked

8.

The Carbor, inlits, and nume

brows

small islands in the immediate

neighborhood of this Colony afford peculiar temptation, and facilition for the practice of Piracy, and I share the belief of Officers of long experience here that the

occasional

purssence of a British

Gm beat would have

moral

of

Can

reason whatever that

the Naval Fine in

Atingthing

Harbor need be augmented for the

a.

and avert the

effect, and

pavarful

posibility

a recurrence of the civil which mmy Predecefoor took so much pains to suppress

9.

I trommet this correspondend

ri