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affected by Colonial Legislation; in which, consequently, the General Commanding, as the local chief representative of the Mar office, ought in justice, to have a voice.
With regard to the
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general position of the Officer Commanding the "Troop", and to the remarks upon it in Your Lordships' despatches Nos 158 and 194, I would ask permission, on public grounds, and in the interests of the Queen's Service, to submit the following facts and arguments, in addition to those submitted in my despatches nos 6 and 82, which should be read together with this despatch. I may be allowed to observe that I have had probably greater practical experience of this subject than any living, for, during a Colonial Service of 35 years, I have had opportunities of studying the relations between the Civil and Military Authorities in six dependencies of the Empire, the Ionian Islands, Queensland, New Zealand, Victoria, and Mauritius.