as
the among
state
benefit.
you
health in
are
- personal sacrifices which you
ready to make for the public.
is the probable injury to your- quitting Hongkong at the
of the
commencement
the hot season to
proceed to England.
you
Lord. Stanley having appointed to the responsible Office of Colonial-
Treasurer, the substitution, without absolute
necessity, of any other person in your place-
in
his
own
part
is an act of responsibility which the Governor does not feel justified.
in incurring
all that
Giving you full credit for you claim for yourself reply, the Governor
in the letter under
is bound to state that
slighest- intimation.
he has not received_ the slighest-
from Her Majesty's Government (which_
alone- can authorize his acts) concerning Your employment in the
ways
which
you
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you mention. Every paper however,
have thought it fit to offer
that you
been forwarded home to the felonial.
Foreign Offices,
and the same mode-
communicating your
fullest.
to
to you..
manner-
in
has
ør-
of
sentiments in the
writing, is always open.
At each of the five Consulates a Gentleman bearing Her Majesty's Commission as foneul - has been placed - for the exprese purpose of supplying the "fullest and most careful information, and it is the duty of the Governor- Plenipotentiary and frief Superintendent - to report this to Her Majesty's bovernment, with a previous experience of Chinese- Diplomacy and Commerce not-
to your
own
as
inferior-
Until therefore, a stronger-
of neecerity
Can
Case
be made out than the
mem