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now completed the view the writer had designed to take of the “State and Position of Western Australia,” and brought down the information respecting it to the period of the latest arrivals, there remain a few points closely connected with the general principles of Colonial Legislation and Government, which he is desirous very briefly to notice. And first, though he has felt it incumbent upon him to notice certain errors into which Colonel Napier has inadvertently fallen respecting Western Australia, still he feels called upon to do justice to the validity of the reasons on which that officer has declined “the government of the South Australian colony, without troops, and the power to draw upon the British Government for money, in case of need.”

“My demand,” says the Colonel, “for soldiers and money is not at variance with the ‘self-supporting principle of the new colony:’ the expression ‘