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regard to you appeared in the paper sent to me. With regard to the paragraph in inverted commas " I can only state I did not shew- His Excellency's letter of 27th to any person, that

after my with His Excellency that morning and previous to the uceipt of that note. Thad written tre

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communication

Carslet informing him that His Excellency had stated home that his original note)

only intended to be

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seen.

by

me and waswritten

under the impression, that

many things had been taken from Cowloon and some Mandarin robes had been sold in the bay otherwise His Excellency would

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of the conduct.

language at stating my strong disapprob stung of the Officers in question. Thad sent this a fer minutes before receiving This Excellency's

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note but

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to the purpose of that note I did not consider it necessary

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