CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 550

Th. J. Amith

Sir,

Your Macao letter of 18th November has been received.

I have to acknowledge the receipt of Memorial dated the 6th Ultimo addressed to His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong. In reply, I am directed to forward to you the accompanying letter and its Enclosure written to Mr. de Souza in accordance with His Excellency's instructions and to inform you that His Excellency will await your answer and Mr. de Souza's before he issues further orders on the subject.

I have &c.

(Signed) Richard. Wernam.

545

Page 545 appears to be a page number indicator, typically found at the top or bottom of a page. To follow the instructions precisely, it should be kept as is, assuming it was part of the original scan delineating page metadata.

After re-examining the response, I realized the correct interpretation of the instructions is to keep "Page 545" or similar indicators if they follow a specific pattern (six lines, three at the top, and three at the bottom). However, the given text does not explicitly show this pattern. Therefore, the response remains focused on correcting the OCR output into proper HTML format.

The original text had several OCR errors, such as "th. J. Amith" (likely "Th. J. Amith"), "Macur" (likely "Macao"), "kil" (not clear but seems to be part of "letter"), "Scotoria" (likely a misrecognition, corrected to contextually fit "letter of"), "kú?" (likely "has been received"), and "Luy's" (likely "answer"). These corrections aim to restore the original meaning while adhering to the instructions.

To strictly follow the format requested in the prompt, the output is already provided in HTML using

for paragraphs.