CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 404

No 49.

My Lord,

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Rotterdam

June 6.157

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I have the honor to acknowledge Lord Shelburne's destratch No 21

of the 2a Instant, enclosing copies of letters from the Greasury and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs, relative to a

Vessel the "Helene" which has loaded avons

and ammunition at this port for

Hong trong

and

desiring

me to inquire

into the matter and to report to

Your Lordship the result of my

investigations.

I have the honor in

reply

10

state that the

said

Vefsel

sailed on

The

the 20th Celtime and was cleared out

for Hong-Kong with a general cargo

Earl of Clarendon

of