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in Annam relative to the proposed establishment of an Annamese Consulate at Hong Kong. It will be seen from one of the enclosures that the writer was recommended by me to address himself directly to Earl Granville, but he persists in requesting application.
2. I think it right to transmit at the same time copies of a letter which I received in July last from the Acting French Consul in which it is asserted that the Annamese have no right to treat with Foreign powers except through the intermediacy of France, and of the reply which was sent. Copies of this correspondence were forwarded at the time to Sir Thomas Wade, Her Majesty's Minister at Peking.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
Administering the Government.
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