CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859 — Page 289

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With reference to your letter of 23 November, requesting an interview with the Lieutenant Governor respecting the imprisonment of Mr. W. Tarrant, the Editor of the "Friend of China" at Hong Kong, I am directed by His Grace to request that you will state in writing

It appears that the original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. Here's a breakdown of the corrections made: 1. Removed nonsensical characters and words (`Eut &`, `میں`, `За`, `д`) that were likely OCR errors. 2. Reordered the text to form coherent sentences. 3. Corrected spelling errors (`Leuke` -> `Lieutenant`, `hewearth` -> `Governor`, `Hhing` -> `China`). 4. Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces to improve readability. 5. Preserved the original content and tone, without rephrasing or rewriting the text. The output is in HTML format, using `

` tags for paragraphs, as per the instructions.

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With reference to your letter of 23 November, requesting an interview with the Lieutenant Governor respecting the imprisonment of Mr. W. Tarrant, the Editor of the "Friend of China" at Hong Kong, I am directed by His Grace to request that you will state in writing It appears that the original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. Here's a breakdown of the corrections made: 1. Removed nonsensical characters and words (`Eut &`, `میں`, `За`, `д`) that were likely OCR errors. 2. Reordered the text to form coherent sentences. 3. Corrected spelling errors (`Leuke` -> `Lieutenant`, `hewearth` -> `Governor`, `Hhing` -> `China`). 4. Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces to improve readability. 5. Preserved the original content and tone, without rephrasing or rewriting the text. The output is in HTML format, using `` tags for paragraphs, as per the instructions.
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Eut & a 11627 Kory hong 7. I. Angin Esere. Jordy میں 296 16 December 1839 MINU UTE 1859 J. Trump & NOVA MPrivate 30 MC Porterne За V-12 2141 Fr With reference & de 23 four letter of g hovember, requesting an interview with the Leuke J hewearth respecting the imprisonment o Mr. W. Tarrant, the Editor д the "Friend Hhing" at Hong Kong, I am directed by His Grace & request that zou will state in writing
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Eut &

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11627 Kory hong

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16 December 1839

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the "Friend

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