21-17 March 27

12166 Hong Kong

Duplicate Original to 2.

07001

PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT

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Hong Kong 12. October 12, 1858.

H.C. March 1863

That my

I have the honor to request

present communication be added to the body of documentary evidence, in support of my Appeal, from Sir John Bowring's Order, Suspending me from my functions and

for my

salary,

dated the 7th August last.

To Duplicate Original (to 2), which goes home by tomorrow's Mail, there is annexed

a copy of my late correspondence with the Earl of Malmesbury,

on

the subject of

Dr

Bridges' appointment, by his Lordship on the 9th August, to the functions and

1.

salary of my office of Counsel to the Superintendency of Trade : - an office inseparably united to that of the Hong Kong Attorney-General, by the Foreign Secretary of State under Lord Palmerston's Ministry.

I presume that Sir John Bowring, forwarding Duplicate Original

order

will

accompany copy of the above correspondence to the Right Honorable Sir E. Bulwer Lytton Bart M.P.

Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies


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