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will be found in the 10th Volume of archives that Transmitted by Lieut. Colonel Malcolm.
From these letters Your Lordship will see, that my full impression is, that by Locations for the Turrison Education assigning a Loc. Society, I had done every thing that could be justly expected, or required, and I am still of this opinion; and cannot help considering the plan sketched in the letter now submitted to be altogether premature, and uncalled for; to say nothing of the self-evident political objections which exist to some parts of them.
It seems to me that it will be quite time enough to talk of founding a long-term Chinese College, when the success of the Morrison Education Society shall have proved that it is likely to be useful, and even then it should, in my ideas, be amalgamated with that Institution - any respectable Institution, as two Institutions of the sort in a small place like Hongkong - where I conceive it extremely doubtful whether Chinese will ever voluntarily avail themselves of the intended boon - will be totally superfluous.
I hope Her Majesty's Government will not imagine from the opinions I offer in this letter, that I am opposed either to the diffusion of English Knowledge and Education, or the spread of Christianity, amongst the Chinese - but I think that crude and ill-digested measures are not only likely to defeat their own purpose, but may involve the Government in disagreeable, if not very angry discussions, and I have myself considerable doubts whether it would be either right or politic to extend the protection of our Consuls to any persons, who may