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Home Guards. 16 August 1859
'I have had the honor to lay before
the General Commanding in Chief
your letter of the 13th inst with its
enclosures from the Colonial Office.
I have received in reply an order which had been
given by the Major General Commanding the Troops in China for the employment of a Military
Force (detached from the Garrison of Hong Kong) on
an Expedition
The Under Secretary of State
War Office
against