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JULY 10 1869
Sir,
I am directed to refer you to Copy Gov? No. 111- 26 of other Gov? correspondence of July 1869
536 9549-68. This office 9748-68. Likewise 2602-69.
Telegraph Street: London: July 6th 1869
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letters dated 9th and 11th September, in which you complain of delay in the transmission of a message sent by the Duke of Buckingham to the Captain General and Governor of Hong Kong on the 7th April 1868.
I have now received the answer of the foreign authorities upon the subject; and it appears that the delay in despatch took place on the Turkish or Ottoman lines, but the Administration refuses to reimburse the amount paid for the message.
I regret, Foreign Office, that...