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SEP.23 1844
Dup. No 8.
My Lord
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Government House Victoria
Hungtung
After a careful perusal of Lord Pottinger's despatch No 15 of 1844 to Your Lordships address, I am desirous to express my entire
concurrence in his plans and sentiments concerning Macao, and the importance
of that place as any other than a part of the Chinese Dominions, where the Portuguese
are permitted to reside on sufferance. As the Chinese Sovereignty there is acknowledged - as they drove the English merchants away from that place in 1834, with or without the connivance of the Portuguese, I think it would be pregnant with the greatest inconvenience to admit the pretensions of
The Right Admiral,
The Earl of Aberdeen R. A.
L.
1844
"Brep: 765" Sir Henry Pottinger Bart.
Received
a rupture with the Government of China, our assistance in the event of the Portuguese Authorities at Macao to
On the subject of the right of the
China.
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