Johnstone's offer

To further

notice? But if Sir Alexander's unhesitating opinion

must be noticed. I have an

that the tack which he proposes to undertake is an unintelligible one else. Sir Alexander Johnstone.

one, either for him or for any

: the Author of the Coghon. Charles of Justice, which has for the

Lust 30

Nothing

Legislator.

been the fertile source

of calming & embarrassment

more palpable than that.

the shot possessing

sense and

intentions will make much better laws for

Good of British Subjects

in China, and

administration of justice among

them it would result from the united labours

of all the purists

and

Lawyers

of England put together.

Copy

My Lord,

February 6. 1843.

19 Greatumberland Place

request of the Governor and Council

when I came to England at the

State for the Colonies, in the year 1840, of Londonderry, the then Secretary of which I received from the late Marquis

In obedience to the instructions.

of

The Earl of Aberdeen

suggestion afterwards authorised by his Lordship on my several changes in the draft of that to his Lordship, the nature of the

Express purpose of explaining the Island of Hong Kong, for the

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