think 2 Palmerston
20
has already presented us much!
810 Whong,
194
if so
this letter will become
he thought proper to communicate to Palmerston the observations adverted to - I have done so.
very
small
I find that a portion of Sir I. Dairs's observations in the Report of the H. of Commons of 1847
I U. Addington Reg. No defend the Be
W
has been laid before the Foreign Affairs Committee
this
24 ap...
34.
N° 21 N26 26/48
at the
Paris and that it is the impression that Lord Palmerston did not think it convenient to make larger extracts from the Correspondence.
it judicious
Under these circumstances, I should think this Letter
an appeal
might be cancelled. As I am directed by
This has been detained
with the papers from
2/6.
Earl Grey to transmit to
you, for the information of Viscount Palmerston, the
accompanying Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong containing General Report
on the state
of that Colony which his Lordship desires to lay before
the Estimate.
various
consideration - if
rightly rested
the difficulties.
a
sundry Reports from other Colonies; and I am to state that, if Lord Palmerston has no objection,
they will
include in the
series
a
Copy