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My Lord,
Government House, Hongkong,
May 20th 1842.
I have already in my letter as Political Secretary, N: 24 of the 14th Instant, had the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's Despatch N. 4 of the 31st of January 1842, regarding the Island of Hongkong; and Instructions to the same effect reached me at the same instant from the Governor-General of India.
I was then at Macao, to which Settlement I had gone for a few days to make some arrangements preparatory to my going Northward to join the Expedition, and ...
Dr. Right Honorable,
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.