With reference to your private letter enclosing the copy of one
               from 
M Brew the Chief Inspector of Police dated the
               
11 of November
               requesting that the repayment of the whole amount advanced to him in
               this country and in 
Nova Scotia may not be insisted on I have to refer
               you to my despatch N 38 of

 the 
11
                  of November instructing you to
               inform 
M Brew that under the peculiar circumstances of the case Her
               Majesty's Government had granted to him the sum of One hundred pounds
               (£100) advanced by the Government of 
Nova Scotia, in order to reimburse
               him for the losses he has sustained.