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
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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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