reprets that it cannot confirm the said appointment.
In answer, Shave the honour Estate
to Your Excy, that when His Exery the President of Perns condescended last to issue the commission for Señor Rio, he did so doubtless with the con-
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viction that that person was living at Hong Kong and was fit to fill the public office conferred on him; and
it is therefore to be presumed that j those circumstances - which have probable, ariten since - have become known
to my Government, it will have
ordered that the raid commission
be cancelled before receiving infor-
mation of Your Exer's
esteemed
note, which I shall communicate
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to it at the first opportunity -
I have great pleasure in renewing
J
(Signed) J. Jasa Almonte