1
15
206
+
increased to at least the
In this
numbers suggested by Sir George Bonham, vide Despatches 110 and 155, 25th January and 23rd May 1849, where the Total is fixed at 1,228 for the force of Garrison, and since that period population has increased threefold, and the wealth under present circumstances enormously, I cannot speak in terms of
the
Lieut.
efficient admiration Colonel Dunlop, the officers and men of this Garrison, who have
is promptly, and essentially
contributed to maintain order and keep down the mob.
I on one occasion saw more
than one fourth of
those numbers.
§
Copy of a Proclamation
which I deemed right to issue yesterday, and this I trust will meet with your approval.
I expect His Excellency The Governor
back from Canton this evening, I shall here lose this Despatch,
and from the peculiar circumstance, in which this Colony
is now,
its immense wealth,
12.
placed,
T
superabundant population and vital importance to the mother Country, it might not be out of place here to earnestly recommend that the force of this Garrison be