in sounds, your Lordship is well aware that it is a proceeding of which we have examples the practicability and further attesting the advantage of it example, every Letter relating in the penal colonies, has hitherto originated at the Home Office, but has apparently proceeded from your Lordship or your predecessors here. seldom happens that a mail leaves this country without some the orders from the Treasury to the Governors, which Orders however are drawn up in your name and bear your signature. So when the new Brunswick Boundary question (and other matters were in debate with the United States, the Government of our North American Colonies continually received orders from the Foreign Office of which the Head of this Office was the apparent author. In all these cases (and many more might be cited) the object was not to prevent differences at home which there was no reason to apprehend but to render the Home authority more effective by rendering in the eyes of the local Authorities single and decisive. Lord Palmerston, not Lord John Russell dismissed Sir John Harvey from the Government of New Brunswick; but if he had the measure would have been received with resistance instead of being silent acquiescence, would have been the signal of a bitter and interminable contention. I do not suppose myself to be actuated in making this suggestion by solicitude for the importance of that Branch of
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