And once to Macao on delicate
and important duties, where
the exigencies of the Public Service did not permit of Sir John Davis or of Sir George Bonham's going
then themselves, and that he has
always acquitted himself to their satisfaction, and he confidently
refer the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies
and the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Sir George Bonham, who is at
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present in England, for his testimony in Mr. Johnston's favor,
which, but for Sir George's temporary absence from China when
Mr. Johnston retired and left that
Country by the permission of the Right Honorable the Earl of
Malmesbury, he is sure he would have obtained in higher
terms
It appears that some of this is in the subjoined
written document
M.R. Johnston
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