before going to St. Hawes - this
it will always afford me
the
greater pleasure to be of any use to the Colonial Office.
I have to show that
the return (for 1844) was not
for the year,
but is the year half commencing
with July, 1843, long before I arrived
-
that it was
Officially stated by the late Stirling
to be "insufficient & probably
the main cause of the Colonial Warrant at Hongkong, of the unsettled state of the officer in England inadequate
"
& that all previous
defrayed
afford the means of the first expositive has been defrayed either by explanation - viz. that from the indemnity Fund. The supplementary vote was the first Parliamentary vote
for the Colonial branch (late for Stirling admitted as probable,
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I
have suffered, and
Adve
suffered, and sung
my