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" Police Commissioner's Office, Adelaide, January 13tli, 1859. 

 Sir — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt (this day) of your 

 letter — 40-59 — dated 4th instant, and beg, in reply, to express my 

 grateful acknowledgments of the remuneration which Government 

 have been pleased to grant me. I trust Government will do me the 

 credit to beUeve that I am exceedingly sorry for having expressed my 

 real sentiments in the official form which led to their publication and 

 consequent disavowal of Government. No one can be more sensible- 

 than myself of the mistake which I made, my regret for which is all 

 the more felt as I fear that the apparent unavoidable publication of 

 those letters may have embarrassed the Government. Had it been 

 possible I would most gladly have withdrawn the letter altogether, 

 but it would have been useless for me on my return, after their publica- 

 tion, to make any such offer, unless I could at the same time have 

 publicly acknowledged the statements I had previously made were 

 founded on incorrect information, and that my opinions were changed. 

 This I could not conscientiously do, whilst nothing less would have 

 satisfied Mr. Babbage. — I have, &c., P. Egerton Warburton, Com- 

 missioner of Police. The Hon. Commissioner of Crown Lands," 



