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No 11 1828

Immediate

Downing Street
5 November 1828

My Lords

I have the honour of signifying to your Lordships His Majesty’s pleasure that you will give immediate orders to the officer commanding His Majesty’s Naval Forces at the Cape of Good Hope to dispatch one of the Ships of War under his command, without the smallest lofs of time, to the Western Coast of New Holland, with directions that he take formal pofsefsion of the Western side of New Holland in His 

Majesty’s…

The Lords Commifsioners of the Admiralty

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Majesty’s name. It is desirable that the place, on which he shall take the pofsefsion, be at, or as near as pofsible to Swan River, and that he maintains, on that spot, an uninterrupted pofsefsion, on behalf of His Majesty, until the arrival of further Instructions, which I will very shortly enable your Lordships to communicate.

I am, My Lords
Your Lordships
Most Obedient
Humble Servant
G. Murray

(x x x number?) of 7th November Inclosed

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