No. 17

I cannot allow this Mail to depart without repeating to you more
distinctly the directions, to which I trust however that you will not
have failed to pay due attention, contained in my despatch, No. 14 of
the 12th of March, that you were not to raise the new Loan of £50,000 in
the same manner as the last. I must most distinctly enjoin it upon you
that the loan is to be left to be effected
by the Colonial Agents in the
money market of this Country upon the most advantageous terms which can
be procured here. I have received with some surprise and disappointment
your despatch No. 6 of the 10th of January, by which I find that you
have not complied with my directions that you should refund the value of
the Specie, amounting to £6900, appropriated by you without leave to the
purposes of your Government. This, I regret to say, cannot but tend to
shake confidence in your financial proceedings, and I must beg you to
understand that you are expected, on pain of the serious displeasure of
Her Majesty's Government, to comply strictly with my present orders on
the manner of raising the contemplated Loan.