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and the expression of honestly held opinion on their part is to be prevented through fear of liability to attacks such as the one to which I have had the honour to direct attention.
I am about to leave Hongkong for a lengthened period of absence, and I feel it incumbent upon me, in consequence of the recent occurrences aboard the mail-steamer Thibet, the circumstances of which I have described in this despatch, to place upon record and represent to your Lordship my sense of the injurious and ungenerous treatment which, as a member of the Legislative Council of the colony and in my official capacity, I have received at the hands of His Excellency the Governor.