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due exercise of his own judgment...
and discretion, and that neither in
the case as
brought to his notice,
nor for any subsequent reason does there appear to be any just
cause for calling in question his
ship of
decision not to send a
to look for the missing vessel.
war
The request of the memorialists
belonging to the Hong Kong Chamber
inflexible of Commerce that an.
rule should be laid down that every
possible aid should be rendered
Ships to Vesels in dishess by H. M. Ships to
in those waters, is too manifestly absurd to require comment, beyond observing that such aid is always rendered when practicable, and that the Commander-in-Chief is and must be the judge of what is possible.
and