of the maturitions which Readdressed on the 24 Ultimo to M Davis relative to the establishment & the London Missionary Louis & of an Anglo Chinese College in Hongkong. am to add that Lord Stanley would not feel "justified in advising a continued maintenance of the Marrison Education Society out of the Revenues of the Colony of Hongkong.
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MAR 20 1844
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Foreign Office March 25. 1844,
"your predecessor in her despatches No: 13 and 29 of the 22. of August last, and to myself Nos 168 and 169 of the 2. of Sept. and 21st of Decr last, intimated her opinion that it would be expedient that the allowance of $1200 heretofore paid as a Subscription on the part of H. M's Govt towards the maintenance of the Anglo Chinese College at Malacca, should for the future be paid to the Society established in Hongkong under the title of the "Morrison Education Society" ) and it appears that her H. Pottinger, anticipation of this approval of H. M's Govt, actually paid to the latter Society the amount; being 1 year's allowance which was in deposit in the Colonial Treasury at Hongkong, leaving, as it would appear, a similar sum still in deposit;
I understand from Lord Stanley that he would not feel justified in affording this countenance to "the "Morrison Education Society from the Colonial Funds, but as the same motives which induced H. M's Govt to sanction the allowance to the College at Malacca, namely the importance of promoting the success of an establishment by which the means of intercourse with China would be facilitated, have acquired additional force at the present
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