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Accept the aperiances to- (Signed) SG Bonham-
(True Copy) Mamie Colonial Secretary.
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Seu by Imperial appointment High: Commissioner, Governet Goueral of the Two Hesang, &c, zo, im poply.
I am in receipt of Your Brecoltenaj, letter of the 5th instant, and have made myself acquainted, with its contents.
With reference to the murder of
the Commandant Amaral, the Chinese Government seized his assassin, tried him and executed him; and, at the
same time sent down an
officer with the head and hand (of the Governor):
their object being in the first instance
that, he should be decently
interred.
Now with respect to the three
men detained in custody, who
are soldiers of the Barrier station, and not common people of China at all, the real delinquent having been
convicted, how could these be said to