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The reasons advanced in the public Memorial for the relinquishment of the remand were not new but precisely those urged by myself in my letter to Sir Frederick Rogers of the 21st May 1853, which the Public Meeting adopted as its own; and although that letter has been replied to, it has never received acknowledgement, and although pointed out by the Committee, the arguments contained in it appear to have been entirely overlooked in the subsequent correspondence from the Secretary of State, I did just feel that I should have been justified on these grounds alone in concluding either that the letter had miscarried, or that it had not received whatever consideration it may have been thought entitled to before the definite decision of Her Majesty's Government was arrived at, which was announced to me in your last despatch.
8. I accordingly on the 5th instant submitted the item of £20,000 for Military contribution to the Council together with the other charges for the service of next year in the Annual Appropriation Ordinance. The rejection of the item was moved