entertain no doubt, being calculated
to afford adequate accommodation for Six Hundred men - For their Lordships further information on this point I
annex the report of the Military Medical
Board directed to examine
it by Sir Hope Grant.
In conclusion I have
to remark that the expected evacuation of Canton renders a speedy settlement of this
question of much importance
to the Colony and that I therefore hope that the information which has been afforded together with
that which
can be procured
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by
personal communication with Sir Hope Grant will enable Her Majesty's Government to
come to
an
early decision
in regard to it
While on the
hand I see little
one
prospect that the heads of the Services out here will
ever arrive at
a unanimous opinion on this
question sufficiently unanimous to enable the Government to act upon it without hesitation, the other I think it is
one which cannot be