Here lay the burden

A

to think

Only

the abuse

giving him credit for vigour, mind, ability, and industry, qualities which

are in him.

Warning conspicuously absent,

We might simply acknowledge

and say that this would be taken to

supply the means

for the difficulty.

This

but there is

Sir J. P. Hennessy

made some changes in the criminal

Laws

of

Hongkong about flogging & branding

measures which

were good in themselves

but which He carried with a popular hand

1

tact & judgment raising the whole proportion among all classes.

He says,

3

that in carrying

these

measures, he met with great & total resistance

from Sir)

Small

been

audit

I believe he has

complaint of his that in carrying these measures He has not met with

praise from some H. for what the

has done.

CR 17/5

It is, I think, impossible to say much in

echo

7

the undeserved & not my

encouraging passed upon him). Small blame

the Governor

portions of

I honestly refuse.

456

heavy

Career

which can

cathartic

commended,

Thing of general praise which does good

to neither side nor cause.

It might safely be said that for

the rarest muse

Hennessy recognises

which in John Smale has during his

term of office addressed himself to the

abatement of

particulars

&

some fair

sorts,

heard,

properly sold long saying that retirement which he has fully

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the Attorney General. It is

not so difficult in such cases to pad language

Commendating

these qualities and

for

I write

would acknowledge

in the

Satisfaction borne by

and

the

High Court

full & Express testimony

to Sir J. P. Hennessy

of

the

Born to the mauve

his

office which Sir J. Smale has discharged the high office

Must we

done?

Where

Article

Let

the

J

draft.

allow the six months' vacation must.

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The Law Officers' vacation must.

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