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declared it to be both.
and undesirable,
and
essary
affect myself, I attached no importance
to them
book as
being calculated to
as I had
moreover by your direction stated
the economies which alone were considered
by you to be practicable, it appeared to
me probable that, if I were to preside,
I might in certain quarters be regarded
as
of
the Committee
coming to the work
with a biased and prejudiced mind.
These considerations were doubtless
not present to the Secretary of State when His Lordship suggested that I
might preside.
They
did not constitute
any personal objection
on my part
to presiding - for in so
far
as
they
might be supposed to personally
complicate the question, they seemed
because
those who follow
to me to have
some weight,
Mr Whitehead and
he would be more
likely
to be
satisfied if the Chairman were
a
person who had previously taken no
part in the matter, than
if
he were
one who had previously expressed
decided opinions about it.
The reasons of
related to
my
personal character
incapacitation owing
climatic influences of Hongkong.
As I have stated them in the Memorial
applying for an early transfer to
affect
another