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fsubject it was only a matter of justice to this colony and to myself personally that should be fully recorded
the strong reasons which prevented this Government from at once falling in with what had been my avowed original policy, in prohibiting native vessels visiting this port from carrying Stink pots.
7. I may add that on referring now to the reply intended at that time to record the reasons of this Government for what might otherwise have appeared a capricious alteration of policy, I cannot find in the text or argument of that despatch, intended as it was to be filed in the Archives of the Colonial Office, anything which the Governor of this Colony might not suppose himself perfectly justified in representing to the Colonial Office at London.
Therefore I have already respectfully solicited Your Lordship's personal perusal of it, a request which I would be glad to find conceded if that document be again officially referred to.
8. I now come to the concluding instruction in Your Lordship's despatch requesting me to take the necessary steps to forbid and prevent the armament of shipping with Stink pots within my jurisdiction. I need scarcely say that I require no urging to carry out, if practicable, a policy which I had in a great measure suggested.
I venture, however, to say that it is not practicable, for the simple reason that it is a policy whose effective utility depends on its being equally enforced by all parties.