confided to me by Your Excellency, I am, nevertheless, forbidden to do so by my other obligations and my (commercial) affairs; and I am under the necessity of requesting that Your Excellency will be pleased to relieve me of the duties of Superintendent of Chinese Emigration.
47. May God protect Your Excellency, -Superintendency of Chinese Emigration, Macao, 4th April 1868.
To His Excellency Sr. José Maria da Ponte e Horta, Governor of Macao and Timor.
(signed) B. S. FERNANDES,
Superintendent of Chinese Emigration.
Translated by
Mm Fre Dr Mayirs.
RECEIVED
Sir
JULY 29
1868
Foreign Office
July 28.1868
Ansu ? 6 Any ust 1868 !
With
reference
to
previous correspondence,
I am directed by
Lord
Stanley
to transmit
to you,
to be laid before his Grace the Duke
of Buckingham and Chandos, a copy of a
despatch from Her Majesty's Minister
in China, inclosing a translation of a Report on Chinese Emigration, which has appeared in the Hongkong Newspaper.
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
I am,
Sir,
your
most obedient humble servant
Sealing