return to them.
2. He feels that
at the present conjuncture The affairs of this Colony
are so mixed up with the
"greater subject of the operations
at Canton, that he is
anxious to take no
step without the Concurrence
of The Foreign Office.
3.
I am to direct
Lord Clarendon's attention
in particular to the account which the Despatch of the 7th January conveys of the
very valuable and opportune assistance afforded by the French Admiral Guerin.
I have, &c.
J. M.