the least of two evils, and
if that be done by establishing the present system; I think there is something equally repugnant to one's English notions in
the odium of accepting ... seething to dodge
such as Revenue by deviating it (on principle) to this purpose, and not to that; expending just a small proportion of it with confidence and then becoming embarrassed as to what should be done with the residue. I foresee the end of such policy would probably be the abandonment of duty
and
getting rid
of the whole question by re-adopting former corruption and old evils, sooner than be perpetually harassed with insinuations, and worried by complicated
details of impracticable accounts.
I have now endeavored to
go
seriatim through the charges of Memorialist's affecting myself.
I have also, as I think, weighed and appraised at just value their personal argument
as to Mr Balliwell. I have contrasted
the Legislation of the present Government with the vaunted "tea"
and "Taon" of Mr Anstey's remarkable Ordinance of 1857, and I think I have thoroughly disposed of Mr Munro's and the Memorialists' appeal to Chinese purity and their efficient suppression of gambling by Chinese Laws. I have also placed before Your Lordship returns of the inner working of
the present ... stewing ... the inner