Agents.
Foreign
Office
+
1
Dup: Nr. 42.
S. G. Bonham Esqre C.B.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
8. April 1849.
Received
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3. Inclosures.
Mr Plurt's Claim.
of 20. January relative to reply to despatch &
42
1:10.
In 6753/49 Marine
13. February 1849.
I am directed by Sir Henry Pottinger to acknowledge the receipt of your
Communications
(without date) respecting the losses you incurred by
the
plunder of the Factories at
Canton in 1839.
Without
entering
into a
minute examination of your Statements (in doing which there would be no sort of difficulty in demonstrating the perfectly groundless nature of some of your claims) I am desired by his Excellency to
Mr. S. Suest.