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in my despatches No.220 and 311 of fos . 1853 (which should be read in connection with this despatch) the

"late Lord Derby, when Beretary of "State for the Colonies, informed the first Governor of Honghong that ." the construction of a Fort of the

Kind referred to, was as essential part of the policy towards thes

"Colony of Her Majesty's Government;

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but his for seeing

views

have

never been sarried out in this,

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"nor in other respects."

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* Lord Stanley to Sir H6. Pottinger, W.2 of November

15,1843.

Hearing

In previous despatches I

have shown that the Fortifications of Houghong might have been completed before now without cost to the British

tax payer, if the Military Contribution the paid by the Colony had been

intube Taxpayer

of

hods for the expended on them, (as in the ease

bes (vity the Ionian Isles); and that all that

the British subjects resident in this

island ask is that :-

(a) Dorne

one

of the several plans

of Fortification proposed by the Royal Engineers should be definitively adopted by the War Office; and that

(b.)

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