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complain of any thing that has bikbert vécucord, but on the leitberte
contrary have been much & leased with the smooth and successful I supposed
working of
arroAAVrea
to have been in harmony with the
intentions and arrangements of an Her Majesty's Government,
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Schall.
not in the slightest : degree luke umbrage at any proporals
any proposals of youre suggestive of future change .
I believe it was the purpose of Her Majesty's Government to place
Supreme Colonial authority my hands, - bet as
the
in mey from the
to
Buy
absence
Colony would ofthe be-
found necessary
in the discharge
of my duties as Her Majesty's Plenisse- Mutiary in China, it was thought.
desirable that provision should be
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made for supplying all the in thirty
absence which might
during my
ment.
be needful for the good Goverun
E
of the Coliny, - and as leguided the details local administration,
of
to be left wholly to
they
were.
your
superintendence whether I should be absent or present. -
You
will admit I believe,
that I have
interfered withe
never in
these details - that I have been
always
accessible whenever
any
hich you
z
mutter has occurred which
decured worthy of my attentive, and that when consulted I have always
the most charful co-operation
but you the
und advice. Shane thunght it my the Island te fireside
dily when
over
all mee
eetings of
the Legistative
Concil. _ but never of the Excentive -