who are most closely associated by Major Kelso, and intercourse with the low-country, and interfered with our who have no kind feelings towards me, to say whether The season is so much advanced, that I fear little can employment of all establishments upon two of the bunga- from a correspondence with the superintending engineer, that gentleman. You will, I think, see that there is an supplies. Distress has been the consequence, and it is to the very tops of the passes has suspended our usual I must again assure you that however personally^ I may 104 APPENDIX. intended, I am afraid, to throw the blame upon me. But breach. I might with safety appeal to those gentlemen I shall studiously avoid every occasion of difference. When I have the misfortune to differ in opinion with unfriendly disposition towards me, in the minds of the APPENDIX. 105 ward to the Government. The prevalence of cholera up on my part to enter into personal explanations with regret these bickerings, they will not in the slightest authorities who are employed in superintending the works which, to prevent misapprehension, I am obliged to for- be done this year. I would have reccommended the degree be permitted to interfere with my public conduct. this would not have been the consequence of any attempt interference of mine would only serve to widen the the military authorities, I must state my reasons, but