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ample Salary / will be better than

Board of Tr

Silenus

{

оче

£3000.

The two papers enclosed contain the plain principles I have endeavoured to maintain. An accident has for

once

pustrated them, but the remedy is in

my

our

bands.

Mr. Macgregor is much too

old for Canton, and I am glad to say that be talks of retiring immediately. His best Succeffor would be Mr. Aleack, but he again is very usefully Employed at that flourishing Port Shanghai, whence Over Incrchants fairly drove Capt. Balfour

lusi. M. Alcoch is made by tormenting of Sterner Stuff. I remani

Your Lordelight's Very faithfully (Signed / J. F. Davis

கு.

Sir John Davis

fr

Private & Confidential

Forwarded by.

W Stephen

W Stawes Earl Spey

MHawes.

D.S. 20 Jan J. 1847

So,

y

Viscount Palmaraton

has transmitted to me

the letter marked "Private","

Jany 1827 which you wrote to him.

28

25

287

Grey's instructions for this

Draft,

viva

were

voes.

groen to mes

I presume that Su I Davis's Letter must be returned to Lo Palmerston. But I think that a copy of it shḍ be retained here.

Ketain with these papers a copy of Sir J. Jamie's fronte letter a send me back the

crifind that I may return it

Й кор

on

the 28th Nov. last, respecting

the conduct of M. Feline, the Ch. Justice of Hong Kong,

As that letter was not

written with

any

view t

Publicity, I shall

of course abstain from referring to it, except in this private and confidential manner. Yet the intelligence which

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