In the meantime, the Whig Government in England had fallen and, in 1841, the new Tory Foreign Secretary, Lord Aberdeen, issued revised instructions to Pottinger, dropping the demand for an island.

• 其时，英国的维新党政府下台，新上任的保守党外务大臣阿巴甸勋爵于一八四一年修改给予砵甸乍爵士的训令，撤回割地的要求。