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willing that the vessel should be redeemed, and received back the vessel, my attention has been called to a statement made by the Chairman of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce at a public meeting held, which is that on the 16th of July it was in fact calculated to mislead Merchants and Shipmasters to their various injury, I have to instruct you to give an unqualified contradiction.
II, the statement I refer to, as reported in the China Mail, is given in the following words.
A brilliant instance of "this was His Excellency's zeal for the interests of this Colony in the manner in which he advocated the case of the seizure of the Prince Albert being successful in at last convincing Sir Rutherford Alcock that the seizure was an illegal one.
I am very sure that Sir Richard G. MacDonnell, to whom allusion is made in the above extract, never made a statement so wholly devoid of foundation. The legality of