be conducted in a straightforward manner at H.K. itself.
2.
That as to the dispersion, the proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry are (as this department believes) known to the Colony; that on these proceedings the order of suspension was based, which suspension has even been confirmed: and that the case of Mr. St. John does not concern the public interest would be furnished by submitting to Mr. Anstey
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infection the correspondence which has taken place between Mr. Downing in Hong Kong during his sojourn there, & must delineate
Sie in what I would myself suggest. Is it you will judge (better than I can as yet) how far we can enter the case of St. John in any other than the conventional manner thus indicated.
Letter to W.A. will, as usual, be fully used again!
H.M. May 20.