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peil

Board of T

it conveys, is such as to

forbid my receiving it,

in

any form,

addressing to you

without

such

Instructions as the occasion

to ingently demands

The Statement is that

habitual

"M. Haline is an

"""drunkard", and that "Yow

" and Sir Thos Cochrane, have

"often witnessed & deplored "it together". To these general

that

Statements, you add, and this authority of General, D'Aquilar, that on bring invited to dine with him

hand told you that he had been afraid to ask her Hulme to shine

the food ge "rolled" in a state of intoxication against the Sentry at his

house

ince the recar when he

If this statement is really correct & I confess considering the

His made peste it fin whi anthonety whom wh

it almost equally difficult for

me to believe that it is to or that

some you are labouring under misupprehent

"house" - " and then fell flat

ipox his back.

more

can be

Icaw suppose nothing

calculated to degrade

our National Character

in the minds of the Chinese people, and therefore nothing

more hostile to the objects

Commercial, Political and Religions, with a view to wheek, I song is main -

-tained, at to

large

a

cast to this Kingdon, then

such

disgraceful

exhibition of intemperance

by

the Chief Festive of

that Settlement. Whatever

ве

measures may

nexesday

to repress to intolerable

a

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