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
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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.
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It is, I think, impossible to say much in
echo
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the undeserved & not my
encouraging passed upon him). Small blame
the Governor
portions of
I honestly refuse.
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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.