that it is the admission of the General Commanding the troops to a Colonial Legislature and not of his exclusion from it, which is likely to lead to his assumption a position antagonistic to the Civil Government. Assuredly, all experience points to exactly the opposite belief. In the Colonies, as in England, it has become almost proverbial that the true way to deal with a political opponent is to get him into Parliament, where he will soon find his level; and then, if he proves to be able or influential, to induce him to join the Government. As I have already shown it was the exclusion of the General at Hong Kong that has proved the main source of the "bitter official controversies and personal dissensions which have frequently sprung up in former years between the Civil and Military Authorities, much to the prejudice of the Queen's service and of the interests of this Colony. We all know that when General
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then, if he proves to be able or
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the Government. As I have already
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