CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 47

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and person

secure under the protection of equal laws, and, in a word, all the fruits of Science and Civilisation transplanted direct from the Metropolitan Head quarters.

good or evil we

good

May

de

The

swill, by the law of inevitable

reality.

reant upon

is rather more

Ourselves.

than

a

Year

Since I forwarded to the Foreign

Office

Memorandum

after adverting

in which

to the ill conduct of

British Subjects in China, I added

that the very highest, the

very highest powers that

can be legally

and

constitutionally

delegated to a functuary at such

a distance should be conferred

the

A

10 Dec 1842.

Official

Common and

is to watch

over

political interest in

our

quarter; and as the Ordinance of 1833 proved the expanding

inadequate on this point, the

if a fresh bill, enacting new powers declaratory of and extending the old, seems worthy of

consideration.

On the 22nd August last, an Act was

passed far exceeding my hopes in the latitude of the powers (making them not only executive but legislative) which it conferred,

at the same time, which it is

for any reason to

of ordinary abuse, with the penalties of public

opinion and the press. The Sword of Damocles at the feast of power, hanging

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and person secure under the protection of equal laws, and, in a word, all the fruits of Science and Civilisation transplanted direct from the Metropolitan Head quarters. good or evil we good May de The swill, by the law of inevitable reality. reant upon is rather more Ourselves. than a Year Since I forwarded to the Foreign Office Memorandum after adverting in which to the ill conduct of British Subjects in China, I added that the very highest, the very highest powers that can be legally and constitutionally delegated to a functuary at such a distance should be conferred the A 10 Dec 1842. Official Common and is to watch over political interest in our quarter; and as the Ordinance of 1833 proved the expanding inadequate on this point, the if a fresh bill, enacting new powers declaratory of and extending the old, seems worthy of consideration. On the 22nd August last, an Act was passed far exceeding my hopes in the latitude of the powers (making them not only executive but legislative) which it conferred, at the same time, which it is for any reason to of ordinary abuse, with the penalties of public opinion and the press. The Sword of Damocles at the feast of power, hanging
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and person

secure under the protection of equal laws, and, in a word, all- " feuits of Sience and Civil-

the best

:igation Cransplanted direct from the Cerrapour Bead quarters. Par

good or evil we

good

May

de

The

swill, by the law of inevitable_

reality.

reant upon

is rather more

Ourselves.

than

a

Year

Since I forwarded to the Foreign

Iffin

Q

Memorandum

after adverting

in which

to the ill conduct of

in China, Jadded

Butish Subjects in

that the very highest,

very highest powers that

" can be legally

M

n

constitutionally

delegated to a functuary at suct

a distance should be conferred

the

A

10 Dec 1842.

"

Officin eshe

"Common and

is to watchs

over

litical interest in

3 political

our

ra

45

that

"quarter ; and as the Out of 18833 preved the expading

inadequate on this point, the

F

if a fresh bitt, enacting new prowers declaratory / and extenony) of

the old, seems worthy of

consideration

Oh the 22nd August last, an Act was

in

haped far exceeding my hipert the latitude of the powers (making

them not only executive but legis. which it conferred, powers

lative) which it

lative )

at the same time, which it is

for any

Mar

reason to

of ordinary abuse, with the penalties of public

opinion and the press. The Sword Damocles at the feast of power, hanging

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