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left the place, &c., the Postmaster of Barbados will return you the 

 postage for, as dead letters. 



To James Ogle Esq., of Demerary, 



or the person appointed by him to receive the 

 Demerary Bag, Barbados. 



As a natural result of this communication, the Colonial 

 Postmaster was discharged from his duties, and the 

 Post Office was carried on under the immediate control 

 of the London authorities. The letter from the Governor 

 to Mr. Murray, was as follows : — 



Government House, Stabroek, 



July 3rd, 1798. 



Sir, — Mr. Ogle, who has arrived in the colony, has shown me a letter 

 signed by the Secretary of the General Post Office in London, compre- 

 hending a nominal appointment conferred on him as Postmaster in 

 Demerary, Berbice and Essequebo. In consequence, by his afting in 

 that capacity within this Government, your funftion of a Postmaster 

 under the Colonial appointment here will cease. At the first meeting 

 of the Court of Policy, I shall make to them the communications 

 necessary by the above circumstance, and lay before the said Court the 

 amount you have delivered me of postages received during the time of 

 your acting. In the meanwhile, with respeft to such letters as have not 

 yet been taken up, and are still in your possession, I request you will 

 cause a list of them to be inserted in the Essequebo and Demerary 

 Gazette, noticing the persons to whom they are addressed, to send for 

 them within a month after the date of the advertisement, as at the 

 expiration of that time they will no longer be held by you, but sub- 

 mitted to the Government of the Colony to take such measures respect- 

 ing them as may be deemed proper. 



I return you thanks for the trouble you have taken, on my proposal, 

 ia discharging hitherto the foregoing function, and am, with great 

 regard. 



Yours, &c. 



Antony Beaujon. 



When the colony was restored to the Batavian Re- 

 public in 1802, Mr. C. T. Rapin was appointed Post- 

 master, and in January 1803, arrangements were made 



