CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 31

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assure

himself that I was

actuated by no feeling of personal disrespect, when Tomitted to reply to your letter of 30 Cctolu.

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At the time of its rexeipt I was confined to bad by illness. The

discourteous and even mon

tervor of your

of the got compels

9th

masing

communication

me in

in opposition

to the injunctions of my medical attendant to the business of replying to it.

ly I consider the

I received

information Subject to which

an

you refer

C

the

reliable, I shall be happy to attempt

its substantiation. I should

mention, in addition to what

to the

I stated in the Daily Ress," that my withouty effect that the unfortunate prictions

Runz

applied in main for

The

cazer

in for a guard.

referred to cond

was

that of Chun-aches, Mong-ayu

And

Cheong

•ho dee

for thigh Tran tried on the 2nd of May 1857.

I was in Error when I stated the Locality to be Aberdeen, it

was at

Cherche. This

explanation dispose I hust of the paragraph to where

the words " eventuated in Connection