CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6] — Page 125

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Hong Kong 2. June 1856.

My dear Sir,

I would have replied long ago to your note of the 23rd May last but have been laid up in bed.

What Mr. Audley told me on 16 May regarding you was as follows. That there had been a dinner party at Government House on the 13th or 14th, I think, at which you behaved so strangely that he conceived you to be under the influence of liquor and that he was confirmed in this belief by His Excellency Sir John Bowring. Who, after the company had dispersed, gave him clearly to understand that he also considered you inebriated. I cannot at this distance of time remember the precise words which were spoken, but the tenor was plainly this and nothing else: that you were intoxicated and behaved in such a manner as to render it apparent.

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Hong Kong 2. June 1856. My dear Sir, I would have replied long ago to your note of the 23rd May last but have been laid up in bed. What Mr. Audley told me on 16 May regarding you was as follows. That there had been a dinner party at Government House on the 13th or 14th, I think, at which you behaved so strangely that he conceived you to be under the influence of liquor and that he was confirmed in this belief by His Excellency Sir John Bowring. Who, after the company had dispersed, gave him clearly to understand that he also considered you inebriated. I cannot at this distance of time remember the precise words which were spoken, but the tenor was plainly this and nothing else: that you were intoxicated and behaved in such a manner as to render it apparent.
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Copy. 10 133 124 27025-121 Hong Kong 2. June 1856. My dear Sir. I would have replied Looved to your note of the 33 . may last but have been laid up in bed. What Mr. Audley told me Cou tt 16 may regarding you was as foleous. That there had been a dimmery party at Goverment House on the 13th 14th. I think at which you behaved to Strangely that he conceived you to be under the influence of time and that he was confirmed in this belief by His rexcelency his John Bowring Who after the Company had dispersed gave him clearly to understand that we which he also considered you inebriated. I cannot at this distance of time. remember the precise words which were spotten but the tenor sour plainly this and nothing are that the judge else was intoxicated and behaved in luck a luanner as to render luch a luauper at to render in framfaly apparent
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Hong Kong 2. June 1856.

My dear Sir.

I would have replied Looved to your note of the 33 . may last but have been laid up in bed.

What Mr. Audley told me Cou

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16 may regarding you was as foleous. That there had been a dimmery party at Goverment House on the 13th 14th. I think at which you behaved

to Strangely that he conceived you to be under the influence of time and that he was confirmed in this belief by His rexcelency his John Bowring Who after the Company had dispersed gave him clearly to understand that we which he also considered you inebriated. I cannot at this distance of time. remember the precise words which were spotten but the tenor sour plainly this and nothing are that the judge

else was intoxicated and behaved in luck a luanner as to render luch a luauper

at to render in framfaly

apparent

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