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Public Officer,
I have to state that I had, notwithstanding the involuntary error fallen into by my Department, done faithfully and conscientiously all that rested in me personally to carry out the views of the Government, no step is left me optional but to place the accompanying correspondence before you, now that in the letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary's office to No. 1281 I am informed that the Acting Governor desires that the correspondence cease when I am thus further debarred from the opportunity of defending myself from the aspersions cast upon my character and official position in the letter No. 1340 and again repeated in that No. 1281.
It is now requisite I should state my object in addressing you at the same time that I am anxious it should be clear and not subject to misapprehension that I do not complain that during Mr. Mercer's temporary administration of the Government of Hong Kong he should—in correspondence with my Department—have adopted a style of address as offensive as it was uncalled for, and still less do I propose to complain of the Acting Colonial Secretary who merely obeyed his instructions in attaching his name to letters drafted by Mr. Mercer himself.
But as motives and actions have been attributed to me repugnant to the feelings of a Gentleman and of an Old Public Servant, I wish to place this letter in your hands as a record that I am not unconscious of the character of the letters addressed to me and numbered respectively M-1, 2, 40.
معة ال العالم المالها محار.
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لكم أعمالكم
and a
Public Officer
gurtteman that I had, notwithstanding the involuntary-error fallen into by my Department, done trisly and conscientiously all that rested in
me
personally to carry out of the
views of
the Government, no
step is left
me
optional
but to place the
accompanying correspondence before you, now that in the letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary's office to 1281 I
informed that the Acting
am
no
Governor
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desires that the correspondence cease when I am thus further debarred from ; the opportunity of defending myself from the nepersions cast upon my character and Official fusition in the letter No 13.40 and again repeated in
that No. 1281..
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requisite. I should state
my object in addressing you
at the
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same time that I
am anxions it should
be clear and not subject to misapprehension
that I do not complain that
during
Mr Mercer's temporary administration
the Governmt of
of Honghong he should-in correspondence
mith
Department-have adopted a-
my style of address as
offensive
as it
wns
incalled for and still less do I propose to complain of the Acting beolonial Secretary who merely obeyer
his instructions in
attacking his name to letters drafted by Mr. Mercer himself,
but as motives and actions have been
attributed to me
repugnant to the feelings of a Centleman and of an Old Public Servant. I mish to place this letter in your
hands as a record
that I am not inconscious
unconscions of the
character of the letters addressed to me and mmbered respectively
M-1,2,40
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