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the Books and papers of Mah Chow Wong. thus, so

far:

own

as regards this latter point, my Evidence given before the Commission but contradicted.

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Or: "Bridges to the effect that,

by

in a conversation I

had/ had with Mr. Wade, the head of that Office,

of

some months afterwards, Mr Wade informed me the nature of the Memoranda' in question, and that they were then still remaining in his hands, was entirely confirmed by Mr Mongan.

52. Since

my departure from the Island it has bien publicly confessed by the Hong Hong Government

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that the Memoranda were

Ib. and see the printe Minutes &C Eleventh

Fifteenth days 17th, 28th June 1858 pp. (2a Gol.) and 51 (jor

See No 40 Government,

(1854, in Hong Kong of t

Notification of the lif

so stated by me, in Guzete of the 23° 0 m Soi E. B. Lytton of the and my letter to det

June 1839. mor

existence and W. Wade's hands, it that time, and so continued during all the sittings of the Commission, and the whole of my subsequent Correspond with that Government, and from thence down to the 12th boros

March 1859; - when they were restored by my Wade, under Official Cover of that date, to the Hong Hong Secretariat. The "Notification in question contains an entire copy of the "Memoranda; and I understand, from Mr May, that the Secretary of Hate has also received a Manuscript Copy thereof; with additonal

the reason already mentioned, remains unanswered,

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scale,

54. 1. Those, which affect Mak Chow Wong, show him to have been engaged, habitually and by way of Vocations, un poiatical operations on the largest They tell of the equifurent and armament of priste Ships, despatch of such, on piratical expeditions, resetting of pirates at home, _confederacy with pirates and p Apupons abroad, kidnapping at Hong Kong, _ and the Slave Trade in the Straits of Malacca.

to have been, during the

55. 2. Those which affect Mr. Caldwell, show him

whole period of those I avocations of Mah Chow Wong, in intimate and,

relations with that Convict. There is

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prvak mepage of thanks to himself, through Mah Chow Wong, from a Chinese Mandarin, during the late War, for apisting to recover and restore Government plunder, made by Queens

the queurs Koops, from the writer's station, there are

to mr Caldwell, and receipt from payments of money

his account. There is a transaction, binding M.Mays him, and ma H. Ib. and see bridence in Printed Minutes

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4. Twelfth day. 18th June a Chinaman of Hong Kong_ who has a suit for lands over / if the suit succeeds/ to the there to make them 1858 p.37 (Colt/

party conducting the suit, that is to say, Mr. Caldwell _for the sum of 1500 Dollars, out of which Mr. Caldwel

-though not a

Lawyer certainly - may also retain to - himself the sum of 500 Dollars for Costs.

56. W. Wade as I have said had been deceived.

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by Sir John Bowring's Government into the

belief that Plexipotentiary of the 12th.

the original papers, to which these "Memorandu' were "March 1859 - printed" by ments

Reports, from M. May himself, and also from Mr. -Caldwell, on the subjects to which the entices therein contained relate, I have myself offered to

guse every mory information in my power, to your Grace's predecessor, with respect to them, but

my

letter, for

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See the Letter of Thomas Wader

Exy Chinese Secretary to the

[53, Those entres belong to two Classes:

1. Such

as affect Mah Chow Wong himself:

as

affect Mr. Caldwell.

54s Chose

2. Such

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Order' in the Hong Hony an Index, had been already examined by Mr. "Mongan"

a student Interpreter, _ an

and a rising Scholar

•Government Gazette of the _ who was

2.5. April 1859. And my an whose accuracy he relied. The Government had

letter

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the 10th June

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1859 to Secretary Sis further concealed the fact that it was to Mr Caldwell-

EF. Lytton.

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