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my
sanction, in one
Newspapers.
2.
of the Wonghong
I do not consider that that
letter can bear the interpretation which Your Excellency states has been put upon it.
3.
I did not presume to express any opinion whatever of my
own
respecting the sovereignty of the Ancient Portuguese Colony of Mavan
I
confined myself to repeating what
often recorded, the
has been so
impossibility of the Honghong Government
interfering
in cases such as the
present on account of the expressed
views
4.
of
"the Chinese Authorities.
Trusting that the two
575
European
bolonies which are so
are so close
together
on the Coast of China, may
long maintain the most friendly-
may
continue
relations and that Macao in that career of renewed prosperity which Your Excellency has so successfully inaugurated,
I have K...
(signed) 9. Pope Hennessy,
Governor Hommander in
Chief.