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disguise it, that the

garrison would be increased during the three

years particularly referred to,

whereas there seems to be

little chance of any substantial increase this

year

or indeed within any limited period

4.

I will not further

allude to the unfortunate

error

which

was contained

in the appendix to Your Lordship's despatch,

unintentional as it was on Your Lordship's part,

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on more

than to remark that it

was one which not unnaturally tended to mislead the Colony

in an

important matter of this description.

Whatever may have been decided

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by the War Office previous to the despatch being written, should have been represented to Your Lordship in such

unmistakable

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