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regard to you appeared in the paper sent to me. With regard to the paragraph in inverted commas " I can only state I did not shew- His Excellency's letter of 27th to any person, that
after my with His Excellency that morning and previous to the uceipt of that note. Thad written tre
Av. Major co
communication
Carslet informing him that His Excellency had stated home that his original note)
only intended to be
was
seen.
by
me and waswritten
under the impression, that
many things had been taken from Cowloon and some Mandarin robes had been sold in the bay otherwise His Excellency would
ar
not have used such strong
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at the same time
еда
of the conduct.
language at stating my strong disapprob stung of the Officers in question. Thad sent this a fer minutes before receiving This Excellency's
Est wage cactly
note but
ad
to the purpose of that note I did not consider it necessary
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