772.
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second proposal detailed in Schedule B, gives a saving of £18,373-3-4, for
ANNAIVUZ
PS.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Symb
Having considered it proper
to send a copy of this Despatch to the Honorable the Major General, I now inclose the remarks of that officer thereon; with respect to the military part, I have nothing further to urge, but as the General partly grounds his opinion of the necessity of maintaining a force of the present strength in this island on the great number of Pirates in existence,
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and quotes the Edinburgh Review of July last, I beg to observe that the Pirates there referred to
are
described
as
only
infesting the Eastern Archipelago, which is bounded, according to the Reviewer, on the north by the parallel between Luzon and Hainan, which is at least 250 miles south of Hongkong. The remarks of the Reviewer therefore have no reference to this Colony.
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