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Government do not propose
to
issue a Proclamation of Neutrality,
no formal
there having been no
declaration of War between
France and China, but that the provisions of the Foreign
Enlistment Act must be
enforced at Hongkong
These instructions
have been
communicated
by
me to eAdmiral Sir William
Dowell, K&B, Commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces in China,
and to Commodore Morant at
HongKong,
Hongkong; and also to Major- General Sargent, C.13., Commanding the Troops.
3.
The French Admiral
Lespès having arrived at Hongkong from Foochow in his Flag-ship, the ironclad Frigate La Galissonière, with two other French men-of-n
-of-war, I notified
instructions in a
to him
my
of
which
a
enclosure! letter
copy is enclosed;
to which he replied in a letter
Enclosure 2. appended in the original French.
It will be seen that Admiral
Lespès