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asked for my permission, and that his not reporting to the Head of the Executive this suggestion at the time was not very satisfactory. Nor was a word said as to M. Keswick's personal relations to the address to that gentleman which the late Acting Colonial Secretary had signed was alluded to by me and by the Attorney General as a public document and on public grounds alone.

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Dr. Stewart told us that he had fully considered what he was about to do before he signed the Address. It was not therefore from any hasty mistake that the officer holding at the time the high post of Colonial Secretary thus speaks of a system established by the Queen's Commission and the Royal Instructions:

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In a Crown Colony the position of an unofficial Member is full of discouragement!

Referring to Mr. Keswick's "criticism of the schemes of the Government", the Acting Colonial Secretary tells him that his labours have been of the highest importance and utility, and especially the attitude he had unflinchingly maintained as a guardian of the public purse.

But Dr. Stewart, if called upon, could hardly justify this excessive praise, which was given at the expense of the Government. The public in general smiled.