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how the Chinese language best be learned, should, in Keir view, outweigh the opinion of the Governor, of the local Government, and of all the authorities referred to above. And yet the character and
antecedents of D'Etel are well known at the Colonial Office from a mass of official correspondence respecting him which is on record in that department. It will be seen that D'Etel has been mixed up with most insavoury scandals of various kinds at Hongkong; that he has been thoroughly discredited in the general opinion of this community; that he narrowly escaped suspension and dismissal for malversation of Office; that he was most severely censured and reprimanded by
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It would be scarcely decorous - certainly not respectful to your Lordship, to refer more particularly to these scandals.
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