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Appendix, No 14.

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My Lord,

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Hong Kong, 17th May,

1858.

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I have the honor to lay before

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with its Appendices. I do so in the hope that the perusal may satisfy your Lordship that I have consistently and faithfully, if without success, served Her Majesty's Government, throughout the events, of which my letter to the Acting Colonial Secretary, Ir Bridges, contains the recapitulation, and that, continuing to hear en

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side, and to believe.

JJ

most conscientiously that the reputation " the British Government is much or -compromised amongst the Chinese

of

The Right Honorable

Lord Ganley, M.E.,

by

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of

State for

the Celonies.

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