CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843 — Page 313

Commencement of the new Era in

China, might as

Efficiently

the

limited

shore

on the

promised for by a degree of superintendence

Forces, and

part of M. His naval forces,

they

Conceive that

A

mation on

Ethical

with

thehaut ohir Henry Pottinger to the Admiralty of his

Views as to the extent to which

such protection & Control would

be

would insure the

necessary objects which his M. Pottinger

might

have in View while at the same time it would leave

the Admiral free to make his Own arrangements for giving effect to Sir H. Pottinger's Wishes and

should

(

would admit

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of his being done by

a

to the Service

appropriating

less

amount of

Force than would

I the

under

which

ignorance

otherwise be required.

I necessarily leave the details of naval matters. I readily defer to the opinion of the Admiralty

matters do

peculiarly within

their Province; & I will only Observe that Sir H. Pottinger has formed a right judgment of the

wishes

H. M's

that the

legal Commerce of the. this subject their Lives & Property should

be protected in China; that wil disposed subjects of H. M. should

be