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important a nature that I thought it advisable to abandon
the scheme altogether. This decision was communicated to
His Excellency the Governor in my letter of 6th April.
In that letter 1 intimated to His Excellency that I was
unwilling to revive the controversy, unless His Excellency
should consider it necessary to refer to it in connexion
with the personal application contained in the letter in
connxion with the Long Vacation.
His Excellency's letter in reply, 13th April, did not
refer to the matter, but requested me to put my applice-
tion in mother farm. To this I replied on 14th April and
from that day I banished the unpl eacent subject from my
mind.
To my gront autrice however I learnt from His Excellency?
letter of 10th June that the matter had been re-opened;
and that in order to explain e reference to it in a letter
of mine on another subject the correspondence had been
forwarded to the Secretary of State with an expression of
His Excellency's opinion that my letter of 27th February
to the 'Ohina Mall' contravened the Colonial Regulations.
This opinion was formed without the slightest warning
that the matter was still in His Excellancy's thoughts,
and without any request for explanations. It was also
contrary to my expressed desire, in which His Excellency
had acquiesced, that the matter should be considered as
dead.
19. In consequence of His Excellency's action the Secretary of
State has requested explanations on the subject. I have
therefore been compelled to go into the matter at length,
but to my great regret I felt deenly at the time that
instead of receiving the cupport of the Government which
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be was entitled to expect the notion of the Government hed
been hostile and inconsiderate, but the evil effects of that action had been removed by my letter to the 'China
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