Governor Sir J. Bowring
24 January 1859.
Victoria, Hongkong,
to
The Rt. Honble
Sir L. B. Lytton, Brr
No. 9.
3 Inclosures.
Received
complaining of the aspersions recently cast
Secretary of State,
by J. Bridges to the
Forwarding. Letter from
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his character.
£22.1
Legislative Councillor.
Protest by Mr Davies,
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Enter on the minutes.
Statement respecting
supposed work
himself:
and still more
unjustifiably if
it is here that he communicated his
feeling as a
Legislator
at once to the Colonial journals, thinly veiling his personality to personal convenience
which
colony
to seriously injured.
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I agree
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I agree wholly.
Sir Jason Rowing
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No.36
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27 APR
W MElliot M'Merivale Lord Carnarvon
Sir B Lytton
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1 April 1859
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 9 of the 24 January
with other
from
Bridges
the aspersions cast on complaining of
the copied
his character in
Protest by M. Davies,
as Legislative Councillor.
I perused these
papers satisfies
me of
Mr Davies,
a Magistrate.
that In reply
I shall best discharge my
duty by refusing to take
any part in these
disputes. But it will be right that I should refrain from expressing
my
Nevertheless I am
under suspicion that
Mr Davis detect