I have to add a word to the reasonings or the facts brought forward by Mr Merivale so as to typify a hope that they will meet with the attention to which it appears they are most justly entitled.
I have the honour to be, with the highest respect, Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servant,
one of unlikely to coincide with the thoughts of M. Merivale.
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Governor Sir J. Bouring. The office advising.
The government,
Mr. Pennell June. Sir Mr. Merivale 30
5 July 1859.
29.30 With reference to your despatch No 14 of the 25th of January from the Duke of Newcastle, on the subject of the decision of the Treasury in the matter of the claims of Her Majesty's civil Servants in Hong Kong for Pension, I transmit to you
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