Line Colleague, and, Secondly, that there will be a standing feud between those who are subordinate to him as Governor, and those who are subordinate to him as Superintendant — between the dependents on the Colonial Office and the dependents on the Breaja Office — and that no temper, however amiable, and no spirit, however firm, will be able to allay or avoid these contentions, or prevent being drawn into the vortex of them.
It will be much more difficult in practice than it is in theory, to distinguish between the functions of the Governor and those of the Superintendant. Almost all that is done in one capacity, will have a direct bearing on what is done in the other, and it will be hardly possible to keep separate the two lines of Correspondence, whether it be addressed to the Secretary of State, or otherwise.
My own practical Conclusion is, that admitting the impossibility of a separation of the two Offices, it is best not to attempt a double correspondence and a double authority in this Country, but that the instructions of both Secretaries of State should be conveyed to their joint Agent in the name of one of them, and that the whole correspondence with that joint Agent should formally (and ostensibly) be conducted by one Secretary of State, although really carried on by both.
Awkward as such an arrangement...