To His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
(Confidential)
Judicial des Malentendus N:22.
I have the honour, Sir,
I have received Your Excellency's despatch No 233 of the 11th of current month,
and have...
sent to the Minister of Colonies of Her Britannic Majesty & communicated that there is an appeal in the cause initiated,
at the request of the aforementioned,
against the editor of the China Mail, although there has not yet been any declaration on the part of the Court regarding such references to official dispatches.
I have the honour, Sir, to be
Your obedient Servant,
[...] Chief of ...
To His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
Hongkong.