rates, and emanating from different sources,
The joint possession of employment by two masters of the same person at the same time, for distinct purposes, is an experiment which, so far as Her Majesty's Government is concerned, has always been successful, except when one of the employers was in direct subordination to the other. Thus the Commander of the Queen's Troops in a Colony are continually entrusted with the Government of it.
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The inconvenience, though not entirely overcome, is much mitigated by the subordination of the Military to the Civil Authorities in England, which discourages and prevents the agitation in the Colony of questions designed to bring them into collision with each other. The less direct control exercised by the Civil Authorities here over the Naval authorities leads to the consequence that a Naval Officer simultaneously employed by the Secretary of State for War and the Lords of the Admiralty