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this despatch
3.
On the 15th instant I
addressed to Your Lordship the following telegram:-
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Admiral Courbet died of
fever on the 11th instant."
This mournful intelligence of the death of the m able and distinguished Commander- in-Chief of the French Naval - Forces in these seas was communicated
to me on the 15th instant by the
of France at Hongkong, whom I requested to convey
Consul of
to
Admiral
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Admiral Lespès, who has succeeded to the chief command, a message
an
my
own
of sincere condolence on behalf, and on that of my Government, and of the English Naval and eMilitary Officers
on
this Station. I have always maintained the most friendly ~ relations, officially and personally, I
with all the French Authorities in this part of the world; and I. have frequently received from them and from the officers of the
other foreign nations who have
visited