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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