I should therefore be glad to know Your Excellency's view of the case with me, and whether you concur in thinking that the prisoners should not be given up until the consul's statement has been sifted and proved to have been framed under some misapprehension.
I must take the opportunity of adding that having had for these years a good deal of business with H. Excellency Lin Kwan-yih, late Governor General at Canton (now the Governor in Szechwan) I think Mr. Stewart must be deceived in thinking H. Excellency's promise, given in 1879, was not kept.
(signed) Pope Hennessy.
RAFT.
The Under Secy., "Foreign Office
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Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
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I am directed by the Earl of K. to transmit to you for the information of Earl Granville, enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong, forwarding a copy of a letter to Sir Thos. Wade, regarding the proposed extradition of some Chinese prisoners.
I am to inform you the Foreign Office has not sent the correspondence with Mr. Huolett alluded to in the letter to Sir Thos. Wade.
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