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despatches No.47 of the 27th August and No.50 of the 1st of September has been communicated to Mr Gibbons.

2. That decision was more advantageous to Mr. Gibbons than the conditions under which he was appointed by Sir Michael Hicks Beach might have strictly warranted; but I regret to say it has not at all satisfied Mr. Gibbons.

3. In his letter of the 2nd of June, referring to his complaints of his alleged inadequate remuneration and the promises he states were made to him in London, he said it was impossible he could perform his duties satisfactorily whilst he was suffering under a sense of wrong, and he added: "I find that I have undertaken duties very different from what I was led to expect and at a rate of remuneration which is utterly inadequate, and much below that which was received by my predecessors in Office."

In the same letter he says that if he had been now put in possession of the same information he has, as to the emoluments of his office, he would not have accepted it. Before the receipt of Your Lordship's decision he called upon and repeated that his predecessor had been allowed to double his salary by a supplementary allowance.