Your letter of the 22nd of February last, but as the only view which the Marquess of Lansdowne then expressed was that the Russian sailors should be kept under effective military control and prevented from leaving the colony, and as the present case will doubtless form an important precedent in future wars, he considers it very important that the measure to be adopted in respect of the treatment of the ...
+h. 6463: not find officers and now under the protection and control of HMS should receive careful consideration and be based upon the highest legal advice.
3. I am accordingly to request you to move the Marquess of Lansdowne to be so good as to inform Lord Lyttelton whether he approves the terms of the enclosed draft telegram to the Governor of Hongkong, and if not, what alterations or additions he would wish to be made. The draft telegram...