10.
by the Council it is desirable that
the Council should be in
thereof;
informed
; and it can only be
only
properly informed by the perusal of the Correspondence.
These reports of
communications
sent home, which should not have
how sent home, of facts not communicated to the Secretary of State which ought to have been communicated to him, of a Despatch
- from the Secretary of State seriously reflecting upon the conduct of this Council may
be untrue; but they
received
so extensively
or may
be so
are
certainly very widely believed, and that relating to the
widely known and
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11.
Extracts from the Secretary of State appear in the "China Mail" newspaper which, although it is denied that it is the Government
does certainly appear
a
organ, have
more ready
Access
to
to
Official information than other newspapers, and which in its account of the proceedings of the Council which adopted
the
Report of the Committee of Inquiry curiously enough omits all mention of the important fact that the Report was
It will scarcely be contended therefore that it is not of importance that the truth or untruth of
adopted.
was so...