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the Chinese Exchequer when the immense
exfenses the establishment entails are
1 taken into account,
I trust that it will be in Your Imperial Highness's power to instruct to instruct the Governor General to look
seriously into this matter. The present Governor of Hong Kong is extremely anxious in all things to do what is just to China, and he has assured me
that he is prepared to accide to any
reasonable arrangement by which the revenue may be protected. Sir Brooke Robertson has retired from the service, but Is Hewlett, whom I am sending from Jaiwan to act in his place is a man
equally fair, and to the full is well disposed to the Chinese. The morsani e therefore most profitions for
an adjustment
of this long open question that Satisfactory to all parties.
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may prous
I shall inform the Yennefes the Governor of Hong Kong that I have written to Your Imperial Highnes,
and intructions in the sense of this note will also be sent to knie Hewlett.
Irenew &c.
(oiquell) Thomas Francis Hade.