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letter was read to the Court of Policy on the 12th of 

 October 1842, recommending the matter to their favour- 

 able consideration, and another despatch on December 

 7th, containing the following strong expression of his 

 opinion : — 



" The item for half the expenses of the Mission for 

 surveying and marking out the boundaries of the colony, 

 is an item for a service not imperatively demanded by an 

 immediate exigency, but the negle6t of which might 

 involve a large expenditure, and evils of great magnitude 

 at a future time. The case is therefore one in which a 

 small present sacrifice is required on grounds of prudence 

 and foresight. The Combined Court in their eighth 

 resolution have expressed an opinion that the service is 

 unnecessary, and have even objected to the payments 

 which you made towards it out of the Contingent Fund 

 at your disposal on the Civil List. The planters of 

 British Guiana do not perhaps consider their own interest 

 and that of their offspring as permanently identified with 

 the colony in which they are now following their for- 

 tunes. But it is for the well-being of the colonies 

 themselves, that their affairs should be conducted in a 

 more enlarged and comprehensive spirit, with a view 

 to their permanent interests as component parts of the 

 great Colonial Empire of Great Britain, and not with the 

 short-sighted view of avoiding, or throwing upon the 

 resources of the mother country, every expense which is 

 not absolutely called for by the immediate and pressing 

 exigencies of the day. In the present instance Her 

 Majesty's Government are willing to charge one moiety 

 of the expense upon the Home Revenue, asking the 

 colonv for the other moiety only ; although, as I have 



