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Extract from Private Despatches of Lord Hanley to Sir Henry Pottinger,
dated 15th November 1845.
"I do not send you these documents in an official form because I feel that with the imperfect information which is conveyed in this entry it would be imprudent to attempt to give any detailed instructions upon a question requiring for its determination the most accurate knowledge.
You will, therefore, clearly understand that I transmit the papers to you, merely with a view of placing my ideas upon the subject fully before you, and of enabling you to make use of them, should you consider, on reading these documents, that the suggestions ...