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were I to
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represented in China.
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Your Excellencies will, I trust, -
Letter
feel assured, upon the perusal of my to the Imperial Commissioner, of my cordial sympathy with the sentiments it has secured
good to you
to you to express, and of this the terms of that letter can leave the commissioner himself in no doubt. I think therefore that
seem to him to be superfluous
it might
secure
superfluous
affix my signature, at this comparatively
late
period, to a communication similar in letter and spirit, to that which must have reached him yesterday; and I beg accordingly to return herewith the official Chinese note signed by your Excellencies
with the highest consideration,
I have, &c.
(signed) S. G. Bonham.
("True Copy)
Marine Colonial Secretary's Registry
Pt.