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and co-
health. I could cavil finit nit emory in regard to facts and conclusions, [did I deem it necessary to dwell upon the subject], since which will be sufficiently apparent from the Public Despatch/es.
I regret the length of expression which Mr. McCallum have made use of in this paper, since much of it must be received as applying to the proceedings and imputations of my distinguished predecessor, Sir.
I do not deem it necessary, however, to detain Your Lordship further on the Subject, except to observe that I cannot give the sanction of my opinion to its general tenor.
I have, &c., (Signed) J.F. Davis
Dowie.
No.249.
Sir,
Victoria, Hongkong, 20th August 1844.
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I am instructed by His Excellency the Governor to inform you that he has perused your paper concerning Hongkong, which you requested be forwarded to Lord Stanley. Acting thus, His Excellency deems it only right towards yourself, with reference to the contents of that paper, written as it was with the disadvantage of only a few weeks' knowledge of the place, he could not forward it without passing his own judgment on the incorrectness of many
of many of the facts and conclusions,
R.M. Martin, Esq.,
&c. &c. &c.
Bay:
in the absence