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18.

in

opinion, that we

on

must depend our Naval

Naval Superiority for the complete security of our future commercial detablishments in that Island and that there Establishment had better be allowed to develope themselves

in the manner

contemplated by you, without being impeded

distreated by

of

by

Military Works of dockyard."

"I have the honor despatch "Military

the Nei

to acknowledge the receipt of Your

Predecessor's Despatch

No1 of 15th March

to Sir John Davis-

1844.

N=28, of

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the 16th December last, with the correspondence therein enclosed which

has passed between

him and Rear Admirah Sir Thomas Cochrane, on the occasion of the repair of the temporary Noval

Stores and Coal Dépôt at Victoria.–

"It is the leas

necessary

that I

should trouble

you

with

any

observations

on that correspondence,

as

long before Your arrival at Hongkong, Sir Henry Pottinger

must have received