Steamers which might find interesting public works in progress would be at the mercy of a couple 斥 War (Same despatch})}) of the encrury, and wormonneed his intention "to provide for such works whenever funds could be spared for the purore.
Although the object to be gained - i.e. protection from incult by a small force ... the Port unguarded. Lord Panmure accordingly exuened his opinia in 1857 that it was "Therefore most important that Houstong should be provided with such Defences as would protect the settlement and its anchorage from incult, if not from destruction, (by a comparatively small force of the enemy.
was clearly! laid down, the measures necessing for giving effect to this policy appear to be undefined as they were in 1857. The Surveyor General points out in