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have been polite in the
circumstances had the -
War Office given consideration to
some
to Your Lordship's very reasonable suggestion. But far from
seem to
the
doing this they take advantage of Connoil's liberality by having recourse to a
different line of argument to that conveyed at their
dictation in
Your Lordship's LORD
despatch No 8 of the 20th of
January
:
:
Wo
615
January last.
That despatch, as does
the letter from the War
Office of the 14th of July,
"1366" unquestionably refers to what the Garrison in Hongkong
was in 1863; to
the amount of contribution then paid and to the
of the Colony
revenue
that
year,
in
and it then goes on to compare the state
of
things at that period with what exists at present.
period with
But