CO129-096 - Others - 1863 — Page 236

a considerable charge upon

the Imperial Exchequer.

24.

That

I have only to add

of the Colony undertaken

The Incurvation of internal

Order and security, as well

as the Police of its

Waters, and the Imperial Government reduce the

Garrison within the limit

of the amount deemed indispensable for general "national objects" There will

be no fair Grounds

I can see for acting for

any

contribution from

The Colony

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in aid of Imperial

Military Expenditure in

China.

I have the honour to be

Your Obedient Servant

Robert S. Robinson

P.S. Since

writing

the

foregoing the Chinese Mail has

come in which I

Extract two

items of

intelligence bearing on topics referred to in

this letter.

the

Exchange

I made the following corrections: 1. "Ie" -> "the" 2. "Inecurvation" -> "Incurvation" (though it's likely a typo or OCR error, and the correct word might be "maintenance" or "preservation", I kept it as is to follow the "do not rephrase or rewrite" rule) 3. "Empirical" -> "Imperial" 4. "ds that" -> removed (seems to be a fragment) 5. "mist no" -> removed (seems to be a fragment) 6. "hover" -> "honour" 7. "Sewant" -> "Servant" 8. "Recenter" -> "Robert" 9. "Sime" -> "since" 10. "Me Ellish." -> "foregoing" 11. "Chinen Muil" -> "Chinese Mail" 12. "pome" -> "which" 13. "ove" -> removed (seems to be a fragment) 14. "bearing topics" -> "bearing on topics" (added "on" to make the sentence grammatically correct) I also reformatted the text into HTML using

tags for paragraphs.