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The Foreign Affairs Committee, which contains the report of an action for libel against the Editor of "The Friend of China" newspaper, by Lie John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong

be the judgment of

the Association

the sport establishes the following charges: -

1st That Lie John Bowring did flagrantly

his

duty,

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and did

abrogate his functions.

suspending The vedict

An illegal ordinance, and in so doing. That the expediency of

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tural cents upon him; and that his

Sovereign's Service

dishonored

by sanctioning the government of Hong Kong nempation, they conniving at the luming of State Papers for the sake of somming a forowite from justice.

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