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My Lord,
24 April, 1860.
With reference to your Lordship's despatch to one of the four Commissioners of 1816 on the subject of the Kowloon Peninsula, I would beg to observe that it is hardly, I apprehend, probable that I shall be called upon during the course of my present mission to negotiate a new boundary with China; and even
"Lord John Russell
Miscellaneous Offices.