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Government House Hongkong
June 18th
1843.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's letter N: 95 of yesterday's date with its accompanying copy of one from Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane to your address.
With all due deference for Sir Thomas Cochrane's judgment, I am still obliged to retain the opinion I stated to Your Excellency in my letter to His Excellency Vice Admiral Sir William Parker G. C. B.