CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845 — Page 177

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shall await their decision.

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shore." "Ye

M. Consul Macgregor inform me that the District Magistrate of Rwanyu had prepared. notice (

) in which the English Vice Consul and other officers are falsely represented as persons who trade and enjoy profits with the common people - It is also stated that these "three people went on If English Officers are thus fallaciously in a public document placed on a lovel with the populace of Canton, it can only lead to the generation of bad feeling and the production of trouble. As Your Excellencies have often informed me that you are sincerely desires of the continuance of peace and friendship, Fam convinced that you did not authorize such a mischievou document, and that · you will cause a proper one to be published in lieu of it - As every thing is preserved on record and transmilled to Her Majesty's Government, as the one in question would prove in case.

such a

paper

of feeture discussions that the people had been taught by the officers of Government, since the peace as before,

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to despise the English. This surely could not be Honorable Nation's Emperor.

approved by your

I beg Your Excellencies to accept the assurance

of my high consideration

I have &

(signed) J. F. Davis

True copy

Alam Machi

to

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