received, wherein
may
You request. be granted bir
be gas
that frame of a beance Corejoin days leave gous caps during the present operations
amist bauton,
af anis
I am directed by the Chief Superintendent stoinform
Jon
that he
repell
he cannot.
oill
deem it right to accede to Your request. The duties of Your office at Hongkong not permit you to liaves that
Jon
place, at a moment when no other
fficer of the Government
is on the spot, and the chief Superintendent is welbassured Jon must feel with him, that while in the office you, hold, it necessarily becomes
to forego howenen
Jour duty
Painfully) the privilege of
Leing
tot
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Corps in amf Milplaney operations in which
it may be engaged.
Dragon Camil
engaged have, ve!
Regrad) I. Rob! howson
Seadey
Chief hapetiak.
Winstond. Que copf-
Maine
135
Extract from letter from sin
Henry Pottinger
Litsoy
If the address
Tentenant General The Lord
Romenket-t.C. B., &c. &. d., dated, 49 albermarle Sheet 26th October, 1844.
"
and
t
and
but I may perhaps be permitted to hear the shongest testimony to the unceasing yeal and laborions exeption's combined with great judgment;
per mnost praiseworthy temper
f forbe
bearance,
ance, with which major as duong Cain's discharged the as and important duties of theef hagistrate of Hongkong. from the moment that Colonyfione laken possession of by any Poderesson
the the day in May
quittell it in June 18.44.
Those duties though stratf
under the Covil department, were for mammed
many
instances purely
coming
uch as stoned have been
required from
Military
Commander, and I do not
hesitate to record my opinion, that up of the conclusion of the kar, the safety and
well
being treated themselve
of Mom's Subjects, who
haff
Inland, were me
mamily
the
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