70
118
Garters
of
the Navy in the China Seas, and hence a closer connexion must exist between the Glory and the Navy than between the Glory and the Army.
16.
that
if
My inference from this is that if a claim on Colonial Fund be advanced it should be made on account of the Naval Squadron rather than the Military garrison.
17.
In support of this view I may mention that when it became necessary in June last to look to the Colony, it was to the Admiral and not to the General that I applied, and the only branch of the Military Service, viz. the Artillery, was proposed to be employed to man the Batteries suggested and selected by the Commanding Royal Engineer, of which I shall speak presently.
18.
But, putting aside the question of the Troops, or rather granting that they are here for Imperial purposes (though it is likely that in future they will be made more locally, in which case I presume the same control over them would be given to the Governor as is given in Ceylon), it yet forms a question in view of the facts,—1. that the Colony was founded in furtherance of an Imperial purpose.