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JANUARY 10, 1850,
Colonial Policy, and State of our
Colonies.
CONFIDENTIAL.
APPENDIX TO
LORD GREY'S MINUTE, January 7, 1850.
No. 1. New South Wales,
2. Canada
(No. 30) November 21, 1849
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(Military. No, 30.) Sir,
Earl Grey to Sir Charles Fitzroy.
Downing Street, November 21, 1849. IN my despatch of the 24th of November, 1846, No. 2, Military, I instructed make immediate arrangements, in concert with the officer commanding the troops in New you to South Wales, for sending the whole of the disposable force now serving there to Wellington, with the utmost practicable dispatch. I calculated that it would be in your power, without danger, to send at least 900 men for this service, still retaining a small force at Sydney, which, under the circumstances of New South Wales at that time, was all that I considered indispensable. I was of opinion that New South Wales might be regarded as being per- fectly safe from any attack from a foreign enemy, there being no native tribes capable of engaging in serious hostilities with the colonists, and the convict establishment having been reduced so low, while so great an increase has taken place in the numbers of the free popu- lation, that there was no longer the necessity which some years ago existed for maintaining a considerable military force to guard against the risk of an attempt to rise on the part of the convicts, and that under these circumstances there was no part of Her Majesty's domi. nions in which there was less occasion for a large body of troops. I found that with the exception of those at Sydney, the troops serving in New South Wales were broken up into small detachments, and were obviously performing duties more analagous to those of a police corps, than of a part of Her Majesty's Regular Army. I considered that these were duties which the heavy demands upon the services of the British Army did not admit that it should be called upon any longer to undertake. I informed you that Her Majesty's confidential servants would consider it their duty to take care that her naval and military forces should afford efficient protection from the attacks of any foreign enemy to so important a part of her dominions as New South Wales, but that, for the maintenance of internal order and tranquillity, it was only reasonable that the colonists should them-