or
for us it relates to the Command of the Troops, and to your representations of undue interference on the part of the Governor in breach of Her Majesty's Regulations, has been referred for the consideration of the Secretaries
of State for War and for the Colonies, and a further Communication will be made
Subject
to you
on the
In the mean
=time I have it in command to convey to you His Royal Highness' observations
on your action in the various points brought to notice.-
Your
It is clear from your account of transactions at Hong Kong, both public and Confidential, that the mutual relations of Sir J. Pope Hennessey and yourself had become so strained as to render the greatest caution necessary in your Official intercourse with the Governor- In such a Constitution of affairs, it was incumbent on you to bear in mind.
You that a Governor is, in virtue of his office, both the representative of Her Majesty and the Chief Officer of the Colonial Government. In the first capacity he must at all times be addressed with the greatest courtesy and respect; and in the Second, his authority must be sustained independently of all personal Considerations. Therefore, although Her Majesty's