Hong Kong

China

Reporting.

Received Fr

Sup: No 5.

Deputy Superintendent

21th October 1842.

LA

affairs in Canton, and

the state of

Hong Kong -

Origl

Freed same day

30 March 1843. 4.8

202.

Hong.

VIV

MAX 23 1640

Rong

Foreign Office

March 22. 1843.

151

for,

I have laid before The Earl of Aberdeen

your

letter

of

the 22

of February upon

the subject of the exclusive jurisdiction

claimed by the Chinese government

over Chinese residing in Hong Kong;

And

I am to request that you will acquaint Lord Palmerston that

Lord Aberdeen is

fully

sensible

of

the great inconvenience and embarrassment

James Stephen Esqr

which

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