2.
I
left the Colony only
}
this
three days before
-days before the date
despatch, and though,
notwithstanding my
of
illness, I left
no arrears in the current business,
I had not then been informed
that the Blue Book was completed,
and so was en
entirely unaware
that this despatch
or what.
3.
was to be sent,
was the purport of it.
As there are
be published among
Her
312
the Reports of
Majesty's Colonial
Colonial possessions,
and as the despatch in other respects
conveys
an
.
impression which from
my knowledge of Mr. Stewart's modesty qwo of disposition, he would have been
am certain that
the last to intend, and also.
expresses much with which I do
not a
altogether
concur,
I would
suggest that the despatch should not be printed at present,
· passages
4.
in this communication, especially
those on the subject of the Opium Farm; which should not, I think,
be
Course
I
hope to be able in the
of a few weeks to
to furnish~
-
another report; but if the pressu
on
Pe