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the Governor and delivered to are Officer the two notes from the Portuguese Consul at Canton. I was introduced to the Colonel Command who was in plain clothes, I told him I had come with the two Petitioners who could now otherwise have found their way to Macao or to the presence of the Governor; before I had time to say any more he cut me short by telling me sharply in broken English that he had told an Orderly to go with me, and he walked away leaving me to guess where or for what purpose.
The orderly went away, taking ... with him. However, there was nothing left for it but to follow the Orderly, a Portuguese Corporal who could neither speak English nor Chinese; he conducted me to the Governor's private residence, but the Governor was out, and we returned to the Colonel, who told me to attend there at 10 A.M. tomorrow, and he ...