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Colonial Committee, the particular mode of its reconstitution is immaterial since the willingness expressed by your Excellency yourself, to make yourself acquainted with the wishes and complaints of the community will naturally extend to any body of representatives whom they may select; this though invested with official character, cannot fail to be of service, and it may perhaps prove more convenient to the Colonial Authorities that the sentiments of the public should be conveyed to them through this channel, (should it still be decided to organize it,) than through the more cumbrous medium of frequent public Meetings - the contemplated enlargement of the Legislative Council, whatever principle it be carried into effect, coupled with the intention of admitting the public to