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of 19th June last.
2.
Your Excellency will perceive that I have expressed no opinion to General Brown, but have been satisfied with desiring that there be no departure from ordinary rule.
3.
It appears to me that neither the opinion of General Brown nor my own should avail to alter an established practice, when the question involved is one that can only be decisively settled by Her Majesty's Government at Home.
I learn incidentally that the Major General has left Shanghai.
4.
Had I been put in possession of the reasons which General Brown has doubtless adduced in support of his view, I might have been in a position to confute, or to confirm them, which I cannot do until that communication shall be placed before me, and for it I propose...