opportunity of considering farther a question so difficult to deal with, and of ascertaining
what measures were really in the contemplation of the Acting Attorney General whose Zeal I duly appreciate.
I therefore requested he would draw out an outline of the Ordinance he proposed with a view to check and control the undoubted evil of the existing state of things.
He has done so, and it appears to me that they are of a character so novel and arbitrary in a Colony where English law is the ground of all legislation that I could not venture to propose them to the Legislative Council, nor submit them to the consideration of Her Majesty's Government with the slightest chance of their being approved.
Without conveying this my opinion to the Chief Justice I took the opportunity of confidentially consulting His Honor, and he expressed to me his apprehension that the Ordinance proposed would be neither acceptable
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