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Nations - Civilization – and humanity imposes equally on your Government as on mine.
(Signed.) Richard Graves Macdonnell,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
Foreign Department.-
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Most Excellent Sir,
I had the honor to receive in due time your Excellency's Despatch A350 of the 2nd instant, enclosing a copy of the Ordinance/Act of the 14th August last, respecting the regulations to which Chinese vessels are to be subjected in Hong Kong from a date hereafter to be fixed. Your Excellency states that the principal object of the
His Excellency
Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong