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increase of our force, as to give our people more rest, one opportunities for I have therefore to request Your Excellency to permit a Light Company (say hundred) of the 69th Regt. to come up to Canton for the protection of the Canton Factories. Quarters can be found for them and arrangements made for an increase of their numbers should it be found necessary.
The Naval Medical Officers will attend to the sick of the Troops, and we shall likewise be able to provision them.
Her Majesty's Steam Sloop Barracouta can bring up the company of the 69th on her return to Canton.
I have to
(Signed)
M. Seymour,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
(Copy) No 265.
To
Sir
In
433/57
Canton Consulate
I find
17th November 1856.
a request was yesterday sent by His Excellency, the Naval Commander in Chief desiring that a company of the 59th Regiment should be sent up per Barracouta to assist in the protection of the Factories. Will you be so good therefore to take the necessary measures with The Honorable Lunt, Colonel Caine, Administrator Administering the Government of Hong Kong.