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10. It would, however, be idle to pursue the theme further, for if fullness of knowledge must entail judicial incapacity, then it is evident there is an end to all existing institutions, because whether the Executive Council be or be not the most desirable Court, it certainly presents the only Court under the Colonial Regulations.
11. These details in the phase of Mr. Morrison's case, that despatch might be adduced to support at least in some degree a discontinuance of that frequent consultation with and complete confidence in his Executive Council which I hold to be possible under certain conditions. Such questions have all been seriously raised recently, as will presently appear from the indored documents; I therefore conceive that Earl Granville's despatch of 7th April, 1870, has acquired unusual importance, notwithstanding a dissimilarity of many particulars.
12. I also believe that it affords protection both to the name and duty of the Governor and the Public interests. I also believe that all Her Majesty's Servants in Colonies not having responsible Government hold their Offices subject to being brought at any time before the Executive Council whether it gives them "pain" or not; and whether they may or may not be afterwards...