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Interest foreign to that of the Cotoný, standing obstacle to its development. This is not the first indication of such a feeling I would feel natural in the case of land jobbers and to the officers serving here.
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...to see to it security, which considering that it is not merely a commercial, but one of the Military Stations, is enough whose only object was to make money on their own account, but which I ...any direction. Your Excellency will agree with me is out of place in a Government Officer. This is a Crown Colony, and we are all alike servants to the most important Naval and Military interests of the British Empire, ought not to be sacrificed to alien growth; I do not say that Military considerations should invariably override all other, but I do say that they should always be taken into account, and receive due weight, and that the affairs of the Civil Government should not be managed without regard to the interests of the Crown sent here to see to its well-being.
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It falls to the Surveyor General to promote the material progress of the Colony, and I fully recognize the energy, ability, and zeal for their own department which he displays in the discharge of his duty. It falls to me, because it is my business to lay stress upon...
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