a considerable charge upon
the Imperial Exchequer.
24.
That
I have only to add
of the Colony undertaken
The Incurvation of internal
Order and security, as well
as the Police of its
Waters, and the Imperial Government reduce the
Garrison within the limit
of the amount deemed indispensable for general "national objects" There will
be no fair Grounds
I can see for acting for
any
contribution from
The Colony
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in aid of Imperial
Military Expenditure in
China.
I have the honour to be
Your Obedient Servant
Robert S. Robinson
P.S. Since
writing
the
foregoing the Chinese Mail has
come in which I
Extract two
items of
intelligence bearing on topics referred to in
this letter.
the
Exchange
I made the following corrections: 1. "Ie" -> "the" 2. "Inecurvation" -> "Incurvation" (though it's likely a typo or OCR error, and the correct word might be "maintenance" or "preservation", I kept it as is to follow the "do not rephrase or rewrite" rule) 3. "Empirical" -> "Imperial" 4. "ds that" -> removed (seems to be a fragment) 5. "mist no" -> removed (seems to be a fragment) 6. "hover" -> "honour" 7. "Sewant" -> "Servant" 8. "Recenter" -> "Robert" 9. "Sime" -> "since" 10. "Me Ellish." -> "foregoing" 11. "Chinen Muil" -> "Chinese Mail" 12. "pome" -> "which" 13. "ove" -> removed (seems to be a fragment) 14. "bearing topics" -> "bearing on topics" (added "on" to make the sentence grammatically correct) I also reformatted the text into HTML usingtags for paragraphs.