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anking the General to how the Bank to slay at Covernment House, the better to

Ferms!

be couched in the most conciliatory And in the litter that J. Frederick Stewart, the rcting Colonial Secretary, then prepared, the requirk to the Major General,

as sent

through the spistant Silitary Secretary,

in the following words :-

am to request that

yyou

was

will Kindly

more His beallance, the Major Generat

Commanding the troops, to have the goodnes

to allow the Brand, to attend at Government

18.

House on that occasion "(the Queen's Birthday).

Fit ether, as couched in the most conciliatory terms, was delivered to the best Srititury Secretary

on the 19th of May. It

C

Ins never been even

acknowledged. On the

28th of May, owing to the telegraphie

instructions from Endon, the Shajor

gave up

benerat

the Branch, but the lectin Bonias

Secretary's letter remains winsliced. I

Lordship a copy of a letter

Lay before your

written by the ictine Plonist Secutor to the Apistant Prilitary Secretary on the If June asking, as a matter of official record, for an acknowledgment of its recupé, and ales drawing attention to the fact that the Major General has not acknowlidoph

any way

to a letter s

nor replied in -ventured to addrelp to hirm on the 29% 4 May, about his abrence in line As Major Several Donoran was actually

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