of Government on the subject as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,
(Signed) W. H. SLEEMAN.


P.S.--I should consider Major Stevens an able man for a civil charge,
but have never seen him.

(Signed) W. H. S.

To H. M. Elliot, Esq.,
&c. &c.


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Jhansee, 6th May, 1848.

My Dear Maddock,

Your kind letter of the 21st ultimo had prepared me for the public
one of the 28th, which I got yesterday from Elliot, and I wrote off
at once, to say simply that I should be glad to suspend or to
withdraw the application contained in my letter of the 29th of March,
as might appear best to Government; and that I should not have made
it at all, had I apprehended that a compliance with it would have
been attended with any inconvenience.