to the heretary of State, and that the applications I have made still remain
unanswered.
Your Lordship informs me that the intention is to cause a general enquiry to be made into the social Administration of "Hong Kong, and that it would appear evident that at Hong Kong alone, could enquiry be conducted in such a satisfactory manner?
The case is one of Crime; - charged against an individual exercising high and unlimited powers under the Crown; - and I owe it to my Sovereign, as Her Law Officer and to the Profession to which I belong, to urge upon the Secretary of State, the gravity of that individual being suffered to hold his office, in the face of what, upon my responsibility as Attorney General, I have felt it my duty to report.
It is incumbent on me to state to your Lordship that the general enquiry which Her Majesty's Government contemplates, as I am at Hongkong, will fail of effect, if I am afforded the opportunity, and if the present correspondence has not already done so.
Finally, I beg leave to refer your Lordship to my letters of the 4th and 14th April last, still awaiting decision, and to those of the 17th, 18th, and 30th ult, still awaiting his official Consideration.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord,
Your LordShip's most obedient and humble Servant
William Anstey
The Right Honorable the last Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Downing Street