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to your Lordship, both ofpecally and personally, Frequent permission to
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3. At the same time, I trust
that, (without referring to other considerations affecting the interests
of the queen's service, I) I may be permitted to observe, very respectfully, that it cannot fail to be disheartening to Governors and other Public Officers
deavouring to performe
who are endeavou
their
duty
to the best of
their
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ability in distant and unhealthy
Climes, and often under very difficult
and perplexing circumstances, to find that they
are liable to Criticism by the
Colonial office in England, in
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irresponsible, and sometimes
disreputable newspapers.
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During my long service of
twenty five years as a Governor in
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the fullest possible information respecting all important ecto of
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