Whitehall
Miscel
Offices
and 7 Feb. /40
Copies to For Bonheuw. W N° 92-
Draft was been 16/90 of how less
Jon then to Post offer 27 deft 1/40/
Sess. J.
439. Honghong
RECEIVED
JAN 19
1849
Copy all
18th January. 1849.
I am directed by the
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Postmaster General to transmit to you. to be lain before Earl Grey, the copies of a letter and its enclosures from the Postmaster of Hong Kong, on the subject
of
prosecutions instituted, in the early part of the year 1848, at the suit of the Crown against Captains Larkins, for the illegal conveyance of Letters by a private Steam Vessel
which case a
J. Merivale
by
de. Le Le
and Cantor, in
penalty of £100 was from the Defendant.
Colonial office.
The