and to adopt with discretion all
those
measures
of precaution which
may, as circumstances arise,
present themselves as expedient.
I have the honor to be With the highest respect,
Sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant,
Macneile
M. Macneile.
Perhaps this should be shown to the Foreign Office before forwarding it tonight to the Governor
Newcastle.
Shown to Mr. Diamond.
Sep. 14
& War
Commission agreed?
Sep. 14
Confidential
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Sir,
FREE Government Offices, Victoria,
SEP. 16 1859
Hong Kong, 22nd July, 1859.
As the Mail Steamer is on the point of starting Mr. Lobscheid sends to the Colonial Secretary the hurried intelligence
that "authentic information has reached Canton of the arrival of a very large body of Russians at Peking—for what purpose nobody knows"?
As Mr. Lobscheid's information has hitherto proved reliable I think it right to advise you to the above effect;
so much the more as it agrees with the news
The Right Honorable
Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bart., M.P.,
&c.
&c.