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temper,
in a
and common sense
very high, and very uncommon, degree: while partly from a naturally broad view, and partly from
partly from his having discharged the duties of other than legal offices, he has, what is too commonly absent from Colonial Judges, strong sense of Excentive
а
responsibility.
5.
Moreover I must not
forget to notice that M. Russell's unsurpassed knowledge of -
Chinese
Chinese
usages
and
of the
peculiarities of Chinese witnesses is a very important qualification which can be possessed
an
e
in
no other
equal degree by possible candidate; and finally I may add that while in the short period of my administration he has earned
my
warm regard, he had -previously earned and still retained the respect of the whole community, Chinese as well as Europeans, and
that