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by one of them
~
possibly by
none
of
very
them but by unknown parties, is a serious question of principle. Objections have been raised to the old Navy system of flogging the best man topsails,
some one
as of course on
aloft to reef
on such occasions
must have been last, but if
all the new had been flogged because
the master put the vessel
on a
Sand Bank
it would not have been in principle
more
new
injustice than punishing
a hundred
at Hongkong for something done
probably by
some
£1. Nevertheless,
none
of them
is less disposed
no one is
to raise objections than myself, and if
necessity or public expediency, internally
requires a special
measure under special
circumstances, I have in such a Case shown that I am not disposed to criticise too minutely the
means
employed. There must, however, be some limit to the application of the principle, for I presume even M. Anstey would not suggest it should be carried as far
as in China,
and would not recommend a British
Governor to torture the aged Parents of
a view to their
supposed Criminal with betraying the place of his concealment. Hence the question of what that limit should be becomes a
degree.
point of detail and
#2! Thus I had not been many
months
in the Colony before I introduced an-
Noy of 1866 amended
: Registration Ordinance with