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affected by individual considerations or by the ordinary usages of proceedings of the Service, which

are

applicable to every day

ocenren@es.

wrong

Whether I am right.

I have endeavoured to

demonstrate in

my Reports

and Minute that our

affairs

in

China

require

immediate

and special reconsideration and revision, _ that time

and experience have made. manifest several mistakes which if not rectified

previous to

the evacuation

of

Chusan in

Feby.

on

March next will be a

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subject of deep regret and "" of

serious injury,

and that out

injury, - and

policy and proceedings

are

not productive of the extended beneficial results which the British Nation has a right

to expect in China, and not commensurate with the large

this

expenditure incurred on

Coast.

points

Feeling strongly

as

on

these

of high National

importance, - believing that

-

however humble

in

rank

my 14. M. Service it is my

bounden enty

to

my

Sovereign

to bring them under the

early

and

serious

consideration

of A.M. Ministers, and seeming

stjäh

that