and person
secure under the protection of equal laws, and, in a word, all the fruits of Science and Civilisation transplanted direct from the Metropolitan Head quarters.
good or evil we
good
May
de
The
swill, by the law of inevitable
reality.
reant upon
is rather more
Ourselves.
than
a
Year
Since I forwarded to the Foreign
Office
Memorandum
after adverting
in which
to the ill conduct of
British Subjects in China, I added
that the very highest, the
very highest powers that
can be legally
and
constitutionally
delegated to a functuary at such
a distance should be conferred
the
A
10 Dec 1842.
Official
Common and
is to watch
over
political interest in
our
quarter; and as the Ordinance of 1833 proved the expanding
inadequate on this point, the
if a fresh bill, enacting new powers declaratory of and extending the old, seems worthy of
consideration.
On the 22nd August last, an Act was
passed far exceeding my hopes in the latitude of the powers (making them not only executive but legislative) which it conferred,
at the same time, which it is
for any reason to
of ordinary abuse, with the penalties of public
opinion and the press. The Sword of Damocles at the feast of power, hanging