part of Puragraphe 3 of Mr. Puls Despatch shows that the Diplomatic Office would have
been severed from the Colonial, best for d
the Parliamentary statule which it would have been necessary to repeal.
5. The third Paragraph of Mr. Porto Pcopatch matice this sve plain, it shows, and I
submit thus with all respect, that, arot
absence.
your Diplomatic duty, but the existence.
of these durliamentary Statutes
"
"the principal leason for
your receiving
as
Commission.
Governor ; it places you
the Government House with
Bie
various ordinary incidents
"to the position of a Governs
theus
anaking distinction
a
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between the social and adminis
trative status it was designed to
give you;
the
and it clearly
v ee asiones ar
in dicatis
which you are.
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authorized to preside at the a Régislative Connoil, those, namely, with which British Subjects in China, ie, Consular
Ordinances,
ces, are
concoocol, white,
to my mind it as clearly leaves
it to be inferred that all other
very
sians are
leferable to the next Paragraph in which it is stated that it is by no "means the wish of Her Majesty's Government that you should
"
" undertake the Administration
"of the ordinary Civil affairs of