and Chief Superintendent of Trade
which admitted of
No
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sort
of delay;
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but in the midst of the perform. of those duties, both at Mawar and Since I came back to Hongkong, I have striven to prevent any serious public inconvenience on in the Colonial business, and as the best means of putting Your Lordship in possession of what I have had to do in that Colonial Department,
I have resolved to transmit to
Your Lordship by this Mail Copies
of all
Outwards Colonial
my letters up to this day, briefly showing their Nos.,
dates, and purports ... I hope Your Lordship will approve of this resolution and will accept of these Copies of letters and their accompanying documents, in time of a regular report on each subject, which I have now no time to prepare as I am daily expecting to hear that
the Supplementary Treaty ratified by the Emperor has arrived at Canton from Peking, and that the High Chinese Officer, who is to bring and deliver it to me, is on his way to this place.
The inclosed Notification contains appointments that I made on the day it had come to hand, viz. 30th October. Major Polling, on his route to England, on leave granted by the government of India, was detained here to take home the Copies of the Supplementary Treaty, ratified by the Emperor and that for China.