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Lordship's information, a translation of the Enclosure
of a leading article in one Chinese vernacular newspapers published at Hong Kong, and which have a wide circulation throughout the Chinese Empire, where a Free Press is not permitted
The subject is my recent intercourse with the Viceroy of the Metropolitan Province, and Grand Secretary of the Empire, Li-Hung Chang, the most able and powerful of the statesmen of the present day. This article deserves study, as a characteristic specimen of Chinese modes of thought, feeling, and expression.
3. It is satisfactory to observe on this, and indeed on all other occasions, that the Chinese appreciate and are grateful for my constant efforts for their welfare, and my determination to mete out to them impartial justice. It is true that the article now transmitted does not go quite...