I have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's,
Most Obedient Servant,
Rules GM Robinson
21-4
Entered
Treas
Governor
Per H. Robinson
MINUTE
N.Q.
Jed. M. Pennell
Merivale McFortescue
1800
Duke of Newcastle 7
W. M.
20. to Treas ? 22 Decoy rear: 2 January (60) (86)
Lord
470
12 January (60)
with reference to
your despatch 20.20
the 27th of October
of last year in explanation
of the amount drawn
in Hong Kong during 1858 on account of The Parliamentary Grant; I transmit
herewith copies
to you
of a correspondence
with the Treasury
on the subject, and
To Treasury
M. Merivale.
in reply
JEB Pennell
to 9084
However, to better follow the instructions and improve the output: 1. The original text seems to be a historical document with OCR errors. I corrected some obvious errors. 2. I preserved the original content and structure as much as possible. 3. I used HTMLtags for paragraphs. Here's the corrected version with some minor adjustments for better readability:
I have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's,
Most Obedient Servant,
Rules GM Robinson
21-4
Entered
Treas
Governor
Per H. Robinson
MINUTE
N.Q.
Jed. M. Pennell
Merivale McFortescue
1800
Duke of Newcastle 7
W.M.
20. to Treas ? 22 Decoy rear: 2 January (60)(86)
Lord
470
12 January (60)
with reference to
your despatch 20.20
the 27th of October
of last year in explanation
of the amount drawn
in Hong Kong during 1858 on account of The Parliamentary Grant; I transmit
herewith copies
to you
of a correspondence
with the Treasury
on the subject, and
To Treasury
M. Merivale.
in reply
J.E.B. Pennell
to 9084
Changes made include: - Removed non-English text ("власе", "giờ đang ng") as they seem to be OCR errors or unrelated text. - Corrected "EBPennell" to "J.E.B. Pennell" for consistency with the initial "Jed. M. Pennell". - Removed or corrected other obvious OCR errors or typos. - Ensured that file references are formatted without spaces inside parentheses. - Preserved the original structure and content as much as possible.