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service into contempt with the Chinese inhabitante of the

Colony."

I would also refer the Governor to the confidential

circular and say, with reference to the penultimate para. of

the Acting Attorney General's minute of the 4th of June, that

not being a member of the Government service Mr. Slade was

doubtless unaware of its contents. The proposed new charge

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is quite distinct from those in 951, but the difficulty is (see f

10834) that the Governor and Council have carefully considered

the question of prosecuting Knight for making immoral propo-

sals and decided in the negative all the facts connected

with these immoral proposals came under the purview of the

Council in connection with the previous charges.

The gravamen of the charge, viz., that it is/di

1s/direct contra-

vention of our circular and calculated to lower British pres-

Authorities

tige in Chinese eyes, the Hong Kong/have overlooked.

Unless we can proceed more or less on the above lines

I do not see much object in going on with the bald charges of

procuration, and would, on the whole, proceed as Mr. Stubbe pro-

poses, except that I like my suggestion for calling attention

to the confidential circular a little better than his.

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proceed to try A Knight on the change formulated