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I think that this dispatch cannot
well be printed. Sir John Downing
clerk. And I
is
cannot assent to Mr. Alcock's argument.
from Chinese
war.
They all their
old law & morality condemns the
practice, & yet they
are
sightful
gamblers. This is true as doubt, and
it might
be
unwise in us
to
enforce which regulations against their gambling. But it is another thing
to
connive at their gambling by law,
and to place sanction on a portion
of
moral iniquity in
the
serious people, Chinese
and
European,
all
are
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very energetic,
I believe that he
means to do good in the Colony & that he may be of much use there, but he is evidently at least equally anxious to distinguish himself and to attract the notice of
the Government, the public.
Under each
of
the Heads included
in the Blue Book he has
started for discussion
a decision
on important questions but in
instance given
any
the
scarcely necessary
materials for following them to a conclusion. When a Governor states that the currency is established
on a
system
unwise & absurd
we are entitled to some clearer indication than is here given of the system which he proposes to replace it.
In acknowledging
this dispatch
I think he should be told that with regard to many important questions the Secretary of State does not at present think it necessary