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It does not appear
to me necessary
to trouble your Lordship with Criticism on
the forms by which the authority of the Governor of Hongkong is
thus
established and
defined. They will probably be found quite sufficient for the immediate purpose. Few of the Residents,
as that place will be dispersed, and fewer still will be able to comment on the foundations of the authority over them,
and
no one will resist it. But before long Lawyers will make their appearance in the place, and
that intuit will perhaps say
except
by Commission from the Queen Herself, no one is entitled to exercise the delegated authority of the Crown for the Government of the Queen's subjects - a mere Despatch from a Secretary of State.
and that a
valid substitute
for such a Commission. The practical inference is that a
Commission