CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860 — Page 102

From

April 24. 1849(?)

Lord Elgin

Copy

44220

131

Secret

Z

April 25. 1889

H[ong] Kong(?)

My Lord(?)

I have

Miscellaneous Offices

received your

Desp[atch] of(?) the 24th inst submitting

your reply to

Desp[atch] No 4

of(?) the 18th inst(?)

that any attempt to obtain

as part of a

new Treaty arrangement with China, if such be the result of H[er] M[ajesty's] Special Embassy,

the cession of the

Kowloon Peninsula might be attended

with inconvenience, and that the

mode of effecting

least objectionable mode

that object wd be to obtain the

in lieu of

cession by purchase in

what may

be deemed as

portion of the indemnity

demanded from China.

The acquisition

wd be equivalent.

To be

The Peninsula

would be a great convenience

doubtless be

The Earl of Elgin &c &c &c K.T. G.C.B.(?)