GOA
Sir,
1359 Hong Kong Foreign Office,
REC'D 8 Aug 1844
August 7. 1844.
165
52.
You are directed by The Earl of Aberdeen to acknowledge to you herewith, for your information, a duplicate of a Despatch with its Inclosures received from Sir Henry Pottinger relative to the trial and conviction of Salvador Diaz, a Spanish subject, accused of the murder of William Hopkins, a British Subject, on board the British Brig "Harlequin" off the coast of China, before a Court of Admiralty constituted under the Orders in Council of December 9. 1833, and January 4. 1843, and held by Superintendent of British Trade in China.
G. W. Hope Engd
Lond