546
matter
your approval.
✓
may
add that without
Your
former experience in similar cases led
to believe would result,
which, after all, might
end in nothing
The Governor in his anxiety for the
interests
of
the
Colony,
contingency which makes no allowance.
might
have
placed both His Excellency
and myself
At an undesirable position
Your Excellency will see from the
enclosed extract that Sir R. G.
MacDonnell has sent the Memorial
of the Colonists to His Grace the Secretary of
State for the Colonies.
"China Mail
# 29 July
instructions.
I shall not communicate the
Governor's protest to the Viceroy
Your Obedient servant,
D. B. Robertson
(Signed)
H. C. Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B.
State for Foreign Affairs.
I will therefore send by this next mail copies of the
whole Correspondence on
the subject to
the Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, which I trust will meet with
Your approval.