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abdicate the functions of Government it
'some
clear
my
effectual
duty to grapple with in
manner.
14. Moreover the dispatch, on which that sweeping comment is made, deals with
It discloses amongst other many topics. The proceedings adopted by this Government for the diminution of theft
amongst servants and
gives comparative
statistics in illustration of that important subject. It also details the steps taken for
the exclusion of Foreigners from
Licensed houses as affording an unnecessary
encouragement to gaming.
15. Now it seems
impossible that the
Duke could have meant to denounce
such "proceedings."
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I
am
~ therefore naturally
sorry
that his remarks
are so
to include them. This is the
general
more
as
unfortunate
because in reality His Grace will be
found merely to condemn what I had myself previously condemned, and what I had
even corrected, as, for example, the payment by the Licensees of
excessive
salary to Mr. Caudwell who now receives
$4,800 per
annum, in lieu of $20,000! It therefore seems unusual that whilst
His Excellency and myself
are in perfect accord
as to the
general policy
appropriate to adopt, all the proceedings
of this government should have been
commented
on in a manner calculated
to produce so opposite an impression. By the enclosures in
my
despatch
No