15 Hongkong
0.0. JAN.
RECE
1844
Foreign Office,
January 2. 1844.
Sir,
I have laid before the Earl of Aberdeen Your Letter of the 21th Ultimo, inclosing copy of a despatch from Sir Henry Pottinger respecting an application made on the part of the London Missionary Society for the grant of a Piece of Land at Hong Kong for Anglo-Chinese College; and calling Lord Aberdeen's attention to the doubts expressed by Sir Henry Pottinger as to the propriety of allowing Her Majesty's Consuls in China to protect Persons who may seek to establish Schools or other similar institutions in any part