With reference to the Despatch which was addressed to you on the
               
15th September 1862, I have again to call attention to the circumstance
               that the sum of £7.8.4 is still due from 
Mr. Begbie for the charges on
               his

 Commission as Judge of the Vice 
Admiralty Court at 
British Columbia.
               
               The only cases in which the 
Lords Commissoners of the Treasury
               have consented to relieve officers from the payment of such charges are
               those in which it can be shown that the circumstances of the case are
               very peculiar as where the appointments are quite unremunerative.
               Unless therefore you can show that such circumstances exist in the
               present instance it will be necessary
that
 that you should call upon 
Mr.
                  Begbie to make the payment without further delay.