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ky klowe Excellency, but I trust you will approve of my not having pressed your request for the every of the hundred dollars $100 paid by Yewi Excellency's Government to the Chinese who brought the shipwrecked Japanese into Phong trong of the wreck of an English shop as in a recent instance at a distant point of this coast, the Japanese Authorities incurred considerable expense, without raising any claim, not only clothing and boarding the three survivors, who were Englishmen, but also in forwarding them by steamer to a Port where they could be taken charge of by Authorities.
I should have been glad if circumstances had permitted Your Excellency to succeed in the endeavour you made in this case to return the Japanese to their country alone in a similar manner.
It may also be mentioned in this connection that I have lately had my attention directed by H Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the recommendation of the Court which sat at Hingthing by direction of Your Excellency in August last, to enquire into the circumstances attending...