affected by individual considerations or by the ordinary usages of proceedings of the Service, which
are
applicable to every day
ocenren@es.
wrong
Whether I am right.
I have endeavoured to
demonstrate in
my Reports
and Minute that our
affairs
in
China
require
immediate
and special reconsideration and revision, _ that time
and experience have made. manifest several mistakes which if not rectified
previous to
the evacuation
of
Chusan in
Feby.
on
March next will be a
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subject of deep regret and "" of
serious injury,
and that out
injury, - and
policy and proceedings
are
not productive of the extended beneficial results which the British Nation has a right
to expect in China, and not commensurate with the large
this
expenditure incurred on
Coast.
points
Feeling strongly
as
on
these
of high National
importance, - believing that
-
however humble
in
rank
my 14. M. Service it is my
bounden enty
to
my
Sovereign
to bring them under the
early
and
serious
consideration
of A.M. Ministers, and seeming
stjäh
that