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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG
Cari
3613
He also stated that important reinforcements of Chinese
troops were being sent to the neighbourhood of Kacao
and asked me to bring the matter to your Lordships
notice which I did by my telegram of January19th.On the
21st of January the Portugese Consul General called
on me at the request of the Governor of kacao to tell
me that the latter had received definite news from the
Consul at Canton that two len of War had been sent to
Macao. I telegraphed to your Lordship on the same
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day reporting this information and suggesting that the
presence of a British Kan of War would be salutary but
that the Admiral was away and that the Commodore was
unable to act without ordera.
On the 25th of January 1 received your Lordships
telegram instructing me to send copies of my telegrame
to H.M.Minister at Peking and the Consul General at Canton
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if I had not already done so I have sent copies to them
and I am nów receiving regularily copies of the teleggrams
sent to the Foreign Office by the Kinister and by the
Consul General to the Minister,
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Admiral Duff returned to the Colony on the 24th of Jan;
and on the 26th sent H.M.S. Moorhen to the waters of
liacao to watch the situation an action which has been
very gratefully acknowledged by the Governor.