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are to be charged in the Public Accounts.
Since the Statement (Statement) was copied it has been discovered, that the situations of Military Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to the Governor have been overlooked.
On any points that appear to require additional explanation, Lieut. Col. Malcolm will be ready to afford it to Your Lordship, and to that Officer I respectfully beg to refer you. Your Lordship will have seen from some of the printed Enclosures to my former despatches, that Caine is Malacca has held the situation of Officiating Colonial Secretary
in addition to that of Registrar, and it is my wish to keep it open for him in the event of his return. In the meantime, it is perhaps as well, I should inform Your Lordship, that should sickness or any other unforeseen cause oblige me unexpectedly to quit China, I should appoint the Morrison to that Situation which would place him at the head of Affairs, in Conformity with Her Majesty's Letters Patent for this Colony.
Your Lordship will have further learned from my despatches to Lord Aberdeen, that I have humbly requested Her Majesty to relieve me from my Appointment as Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent in China, and as I have not time now to write a separate Despatch on the subject, I will close this one by begging, that Your Lordship will respectfully convey a similar request to the Queen as regards the Situation of Governor of Hongkong, to which Her Majesty has been graciously pleased