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8.
4.
"now called to the subject of "interpretation in the Court of this I tried that the importance of holding out sufficient inducement
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"to entice
men to
Join
the
"Government Service is Interpreters "may not be overlooked?"
The unsatisfactory state of things disclosed in these opinions recalls the report addressed to the Duke of Newcastle by Sir Hercules Robinson in despatch No. 84 of the 8th of March 1861. In that
thank
the ward
ent
despatch the Governor pointed
... of good interpreters and recommended a scheme for the establishment of Colonial Cadetship.
The scheme so recommended
9.
had originally
been
engaged by
D. Legge. It was approved by the Secretary of State and successfully started. But fortunately in spite of the remonstrances of D. Legge it
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was abandoned
gradually
and in
its place
was substituted what
was called a Professor
of Chinese Studies. The latter has failed to produce a single interpreter arriving in thingping
10.
On
I found a letter from D. Eitel, the head of the London Missionary
Society have, who had most kindly
volunteered to direct the Chinese Studies in connection with the