26.
Officers, including Offices of the Commiparist and medical
Departments, serving
D
me, all
F
I
M
of
around
whom have held
Offices of lower rank, and
Mearly
all
of far less responsibility than mine : while mitter to myself nor to any Colonial Officer
since the establishment of The Colony has a decoration
of any
Kind wer been
to
unpleasant and
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disparaging remarks, but
it hus I can.
unhesitatingly
aunt been injurious to the
Colonial Service in China.
one of the leading objects of
my policy pour the first. was to strive to Elevate the
Character and tone
Thi
Civil Service in the Colony -
to make the Officia's expect
Themselves, and
given.
by
others:
This has not only placed
one personally
occasions
in a
many
encortified
position, and given rive
be
but it
respected
was
impossible to resist the
impression produced by the withholding of all honours
that