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" Thomas Grenville." Her mails were closed at 5 P.M. Yesterday evening, and she started with fair wind at daybreak this morning.
"I am very thankful that I made up my mind to institute an Enquiry into the site of the proposed Barrack and I may distinctly inform you that I will consent to no arrangement on that account which shall interfere with the people. You will accordingly be guided in all your communications with Lord Saltoun and others on this principle, but I think of running over to Hongkong for a couple of days as soon as I hear Sir William Parker is arrived.
"He left Tinghai on the 29th of last month, and ought to be at Hongkong by the 16th at the latest: My business detained me at Macao till the 28th of February, on which day I came over to this place, and remained till the 7th March 1845, during which time, viz. to the 9th of March, I was not favoured with any reply to my letter quoted above, under date the 13th of February.
"I was sorry to leave Hongkong: the following private note to Mr. Johnston, which that Gentleman has fortunately preserved, in consequence of a reference which had been made to me, I think the preceding day by Mr. Gordon, the Land Officer.
"I have told Gordon to show you a letter which he had from Captain Edwards regarding the Government limits at Chuenpee and Chicka Chow.
"It is equally desirable and necessary that they should be speedily defined, because on the Establishment of a Court, all crimes and offences committed within the limits will be tried by the Military Courts of Request and Courts martial, and all others by the Civil Power.
"This ...