Foreign Office
July 26. 1872.
450
7537
Sir,
With reference to my letter of the 5th instant in reply to yours of the 3rd of this month and to previous correspondence respecting the detention of the Messageries Steam Ships " Ava " at Hongkong under a warrant of the Vice Admiralty Court of that Colony, I am directed by Earl Granville to transmit to you, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, a copy of a letter from the French Ambassador at this Court to the Under Secretary of State Colonial Office