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though ſomewhat altered in colour. lodged in your office at Portſmouth, with my adv your Agent to forward them to vour Board,

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I am, with great reſped, Gentlemen, your obedient and very humble Servant,: e H E: T. MRE A s-\ N Examined, W, W,(Copy) M. Goflins. E E

Commiſſionèrs Viélualling.

Zo Sir John Sinclair, Baronet, SER, Piétualling Office, oth Fanuary, 1790.

AGREEABLY to the letter we had the honour of ad- dreſſing to youon the If of July la, in return to yours to our Chairman, dated the 27th of the preceding month, we beg leave to acquaint you, that we cauſed a part of the potatoes, ſliced and dried, and of the potatoe- meal, which had been prepared by Mr. Boys of Bet- hanger in Kent, and which we received from you through our Chairman, to be forwarded to his Excellency Governor Hunter, at New South Wales; and the re- mainder, contained in two ſmall kegs, to be put on board his Majefty’s ſhip St. Albans, bound to St. Helena, under the command of Captain J. M. Ruffell; each of whom we requeßed would, in due ſeaſon, inſpe into the fate of preſervation in which ſuch potatoes and potatoe-meal ſhould be found tohave kept, and to report the ſame to Us,

Captain Ruffell has in conſequence informed us by his letter, dated the 18th of December laſt, that he had at

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