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rights inherent a perfect assurance that the
A Government
!
20
concurred therein, appeared to
be
manifest, that I thought it
possible to put the
matter plainly before
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the
General
as to induce him to admit it
and so terminate the discussion. I tried
to do this, but the reply sent on
by the General shows how futile
any effort was in that direction.
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behalf of hope
was all
that accounts for his not
The General requainding the Government with the plan
of July 1866 by his not feeling it necessary
to do
so, as
24, as
he inferred from various premises
that this Government
was
already sufficiently
informed on the subject. That is the main
"gist of all his reasoning and I
protest in
"limine" against such a justification of a
delay in complying with Col. Jervois' instructions.
Enclosure 194
£200 May 18th
breach
of
Her Majesty's Regulations. This
Government was entitled to the best evidence
of the proposals made to the War Department
by the Military last July, and no evidence
could be
better
than
the actual plan then
sent and the report accompanying it.
Jun 1869.
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If
errors and afford countenance
for
disregarding the Majesty's Regulation, if admitted that the Military
Authorities
were
free
to determine without inquiry of this
Government what information the latter possessed. It cannot be expedient that the General or any
other person
should decide
what I know or what I do not
know. Since in attempting to define the extent and sufficiency of my knowledge the