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of isolation at Tonghong while the Plenipotentiaries

of

other Powers were residing at Shanghai a place not only considerably removed from Hongkong but also one popeping much greater facilities for direct communication with the Court at Peking.

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Your first Obedient

humble Servant

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Mr. Meriale

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stating that

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must be more or

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an officer inverted with provers milar to there wh a cononl General Wheper.

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