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yourself under our immediate command, and in case of an 
admiral or officer senior to yourself being employed on the 
Coast of Africa, we shall direct him not in any wise to interfere 
with your proceedings. 
The mission which is hereby committed to your guidance being 
one of great importance in its object and principle, req^uiring 
sagacity and prudence in its development, and involving 
anxiety, exertion, and responsibility, we feel satisfied that your 
utmost will be done to fulfil our intentions, and that you will be 
supported by the unwearied and cordial co-operation of your two 
commanders, and of every officer and man under your orders. 
Given under our hands this 22nd day of April, 1841. 
Minto, 
T. Troubridge. 
To Henry Dundas Trotter, Esq., 
Captain of Her Majesty s steam-vessel^ ^ Alhertf 
at Plymouth. 
By Command of their Lordships, 
Jno. Barrow. 
By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High 
Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, Sc. 
Referring to our other instructions of this day’s date, direct- 
ing you to proceed with the steam-vessels therein-named on an 
expedition to the Niger, we hereby require and direct you, on 
your arrival on the Coast of Africa, not in any way to assume 
the command on that station, nor to interfere with the disposi- 
tion of Her Majesty’s ships and vessels under the orders of the 
senior officer now on the station, but to confine yourself entirely 
to the objects of the Expedition under your orders, and we 
acquaint you that for any assistance you may require from the 
ships on the African station, you are to apply to the senior 
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