I am satisfied to bear the same testimony in preparation to offer – in favor that I am – but if other proof were wanting his having called you Counsel of a Colony in which you had no concern, cannot fail to convince the high estimation in which he held you.
Captain Elliot is also in England And with I am sure speak of Your Services in the same manner that I am prepared to do - for he cannot forget that it was through your instrumentality himself and the British Subjects at Canton were relieved, from Captivity. Nor can he be unmindful of the Judgment you displayed at that important Crisis.
I allude of course to your deputation to deliver over to Commissioner Lin some Twenty Thousand Chests of Opium, And to the satisfactory manner in which you performed the Service :- one of no ordinary description.
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