shall have finished.
Allow the inference to be drawn that in my official intercourse with His Excellency, I have been treated hardly and discourteously; and this I think His Excellency, and other Colonial Officials will bear me out in saying; and in as much as I stand alone here, I feel that I should expect a generous reciprocation.
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No 492.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong,
17th July 1856.
In acknowledging your letter of yesterday, I am directed to state that notwithstanding His Excellency's unwillingness to prolong discussions, or enter into discussion at all, on a matter which is before higher Authority, - there are certain points in your letter which might seem admitted, if left unanswered.
(Signed)
James Keenan U. S. Consul
W. J. Moore
Colonial Secretary.
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