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I believe states,

I believe

Stop were

Small art businesses in an English colony

what is ceasing

Lord Palmerston

260

I think that this dispatch cannot

well be printed. Sir John Downing

clerk. And I

is

cannot assent to Mr. Alcock's argument.

from Chinese

war.

They all their

old law & morality condemns the

practice, & yet they

are

sightful

gamblers. This is true as doubt, and

it might

be

unwise in us

to

enforce which regulations against their gambling. But it is another thing

to

connive at their gambling by law,

and to place sanction on a portion

of

moral iniquity in

the

serious people, Chinese

and

European,

all

are

N.12

very energetic,

I believe that he

means to do good in the Colony & that he may be of much use there, but he is evidently at least equally anxious to distinguish himself and to attract the notice of

the Government, the public.

Under each

of

the Heads included

in the Blue Book he has

started for discussion

a decision

on important questions but in

instance given

any

the

scarcely necessary

materials for following them to a conclusion. When a Governor states that the currency is established

on a

system

unwise & absurd

we are entitled to some clearer indication than is here given of the system which he proposes to replace it.

In acknowledging

this dispatch

I think he should be told that with regard to many important questions the Secretary of State does not at present think it necessary

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I believe states, I believe Stop were Small art businesses in an English colony what is ceasing Lord Palmerston 260 I think that this dispatch cannot well be printed. Sir John Downing clerk. And I is cannot assent to Mr. Alcock's argument. from Chinese war. They all their old law & morality condemns the practice, & yet they are sightful gamblers. This is true as doubt, and it might be unwise in us to enforce which regulations against their gambling. But it is another thing to connive at their gambling by law, and to place sanction on a portion of moral iniquity in the serious people, Chinese and European, all are N.12 very energetic, I believe that he means to do good in the Colony & that he may be of much use there, but he is evidently at least equally anxious to distinguish himself and to attract the notice of the Government, the public. Under each of the Heads included in the Blue Book he has started for discussion a decision on important questions but in instance given any the scarcely necessary materials for following them to a conclusion. When a Governor states that the currency is established on a system unwise & absurd we are entitled to some clearer indication than is here given of the system which he proposes to replace it. In acknowledging this dispatch I think he should be told that with regard to many important questions the Secretary of State does not at present think it necessary
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infein states,

I beliem

Stope wr

stall art bpiss in an English colony

what is ceasing

Lord Palmerston

260

I think that this despatet camit

well be printed. Sie John Downing

chachere. And I

is

بر

cannot asse in die 1.8's argument.

from Chisesc

wap.

Thray all their

old law & morality condemns the

practice, & yet they

au

sightful

gamblen. This is true as doult, and

it might

h

bey

unuria in us

to

anfrace which bulations gaint their gambling. But it is another thing

Io consecial their gambling by law,

and to place anschen in a portion

of

moral infericity in

the

serious people, Chinesa

eye

Enerpean,

gall

Am N.12

very energetic,

I belive that he

means to do good in the Colony & that hemay be of much use there, but he is Cvidently at least equally anxious to distinguish himself and to attract the notice of

the Gooth the public.

Under each

F

the Heads inchided

in the Blue Book he has d

started for dis cupion

a decision

importe questions but in

instance given

any

the

scarcely necessary

materials for following them to a conclusion. When a Governor tiles two that the currency is established

univise & absurd

on a

system

we are entitled to some clearer indication than is here given of the system which he proposes to replace it.

this dispatch

In acknowledging

I think he should be told that with regard to many important questions the Sec" of It does not at present think it necessary

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