Confidential
Admiralt[y]
SECRET
41
of
Trad[e]
either in
Hong Kong
or
elsewhere,
have
/
may
Fore[ign]
affe[airs]
Territories.
received today
his escape into the Chinese
See 632 Story Hong Kong
I am, Sir,
your most obedient,
humble servant,
Alle del[egation]
38707
885
-
No. 18
Foreign Office Jan[uary]
I have received
Esq. 165.
24. 1856.
your despatch of this 16th, inclosing a copy of a despatch which,
you
& Earl Grey,
expecting a discussion in which you had been engaged with
the British Commissioner on matters involving the question of Her Majesty's
sovereignty over the Island
Earl Grey will doubtless
comment
from such observations as you may have occasion to offer on the general question referred to in your despatch,
but in
the final
regard to the point adverted to in the latter part of your despatch, namely the right of the Colonial authorities to demand from the Chinese Authority, the surrender of Chinese Subjects who, having committed a crime, Bonham Left C. B.
XCR(85)72
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