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House Comm Admiralf

Agent

Board of

Of

→

Feb 746.

4.139 15ver/45

Ser

0.0.

FEB. 4 1846

75

192 HongKong

Foreign Offices

February. 3. 246.

With reference to your Letter

of

of the 14 of January last, I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to state to for, for the information

of Mr. Secretary Gladstone, that His Lordship does not see any reason &

international

on

grounds, to question the propriety of the

course adopted by Sir John Davis, as

as reported in the Despatch from him of which a copy

Letter, to assert

is viclosed in

your

the

exclusive Sovereignty of Great Britain over the Island of Hughing.

I

am,

Sir

four most obedient.

Samas tephen Eer

humble Servant,

Alle heddington.

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