in the last Session
for the regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, and in
my
despatches N° 11
of the 8th of Dec
and No 27 of the
Do
of Janry, you
will have received
instructions as to
the
proper mode
of Carrying that
Ordinance into effect
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Government Office, Victoria,
Hong Kong, 14 December, 1855
Confidential
Copy to St.
draft with Gov 201/55.
for encl 27 Feb/ 6 £ Fr
Sir,
With
reference to my despatch
... 19168 of ... instant and the correspondence therein alluded to, I think it my
duty to inform you
that Commodore
Abbott, Commanding-in-Chief the United States Squadron in these Seas, died here this morning after a
protracted illness.
The Right Honourable
Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P.,
etc.
etc.
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