No. 67

I duly received your Despatch No. 80 of the 1st of October,
containing a Report on the state of the Indian population, and some
general remarks on their future management.

I entirely approve of the prompt attention which you have given to
the subject, and of the principles which you lay down as those which
should guide our policy towards the Natives. I am especially convinced
that nothing could be more for their benefit or more favorable to the
growth of worthier and less pernicious relations between the two races
than the repression of the sale of ardent spirits to the Indians by
unscrupulous European traders.