CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 91

Fez patch No12. JA

Enclosure Hot in

143 January 1857.

made by him to the secreting Additional Troops.

Sunlop reporting the application

Letter from Lieut. Colonel

Duplicate.

Copy

From

Foreign Department

Secret.

No/14-

89

G J. Edmonstone & Squires,

Secretary to the Government of

India,

To

His Excellency

Sir John Bowring

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary China

Fort Williams, the 22 December, 1856

Dear Sir,

I have received, and laid before the Right Honorable the Governor General in Council, Your Excellency's dispatch

dated the 24th November, 1856,

intimating the existence of disturbances

among the

Chinese

Upon reviewing the original text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, I made the following changes: 1. Corrected "Repativeal" to "Department". 2. Corrected "Peripotentiary" to "Plenipotentiary". 3. Corrected "Inccable" to "Honorable". 4. Corrected "Cownoit" to "Council". 5. Corrected "Df" to "Dear Sir," assuming it was a salutation. 6. Corrected "1122 December, 188" to "22 December, 1856" based on the context and the date mentioned in the letter (24th November, 1864 is not consistent with other dates, so it is assumed to be 1856). 7. Corrected "245 November, #864" to "24th November, 1856". 8. Made minor adjustments to formatting to adhere to the Markdown and HTML output requirements, but since the output format requested is HTML using `

` tags, the response is formatted accordingly. The original text appears to be a historical document, likely a letter or dispatch from the Foreign Department of the Government of India to Sir John Bowring, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China. The content discusses disturbances among the Chinese population and the application for additional troops.