CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12] — Page 351

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we are not a little surprised that he should have instructed you to address to us that remark, far from possessing any such intrusive disposition as it seems to refer to, and certainly have we occasion for it in either our previous letters. But while we are not desirous to interfere in the remotest manner with His Excellency's Government discipline, we are very desirous that he should make us acquainted, for our information and future guidance, with the reasons which induced him to interfere with our position and privilege as Magistrates.

And we feel assured that His Excellency, upon having the object in addressing you thus fully placed before him, will consider that we are entitled to the information which we have already twice solicited, and most respectfully

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Cancelling a Circular letter addressed to the whole Bench to be stopped and returned to the issuer after having been Seen and perused by only five or three Members of the Bench:

1:|:ཀ ལུས | གྲོ སཾ དྷཱ ཐཱ རྣམ 1:|:ཀ མ འི སློ ཨི

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we are not a little surprised that he should have instructed you to address to us that remark, far from possessing any such intrusive disposition as it seems to refer to, and certainly have we occasion for it in either our previous letters. But while we are not desirous to interfere in the remotest manner with His Excellency's Government discipline, we are very desirous that he should make us acquainted, for our information and future guidance, with the reasons which induced him to interfere with our position and privilege as Magistrates. And we feel assured that His Excellency, upon having the object in addressing you thus fully placed before him, will consider that we are entitled to the information which we have already twice solicited, and most respectfully Page 23 345 Cancelling a Circular letter addressed to the whole Bench to be stopped and returned to the issuer after having been Seen and perused by only five or three Members of the Bench: 1:|:ཀ ལུས | གྲོ སཾ དྷཱ ཐཱ རྣམ 1:|:ཀ འི སློ ཨི has been kept as original, assuming it is not part of the main text but possibly a result of OCR misinterpretation or a separate notation. If it is indeed part of the text, further context is needed to properly correct or integrate it.
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