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Consular Office as
Should
be directed to most carefully consider any advice
they tender to Your Excellency, who (at
one end of the voyage you have adjudicated
upon at the other) cannot be expected to have personal knowledge of the subject and may easily come to a decision which like that under review is geographically inconsistent,
and seriously prejudicial to British interests in North China and the Amoor so as to demand immediate attention.
Begging the favour of your Excellency's early reply on this most urgent matter.
We are
Your Excellency's
most obedient servants,
(88.) Jardine, Matheson & Co.