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to them respectively.-

Mr. Wade's first despatch

it will be seen was written on

exparte statement, and it is

admitted that

my Despatches

an

added to the information at his

My

command when he wrote it..

answers to his second and third will I hope be considered satisfactory. I am greatly obliged to Mr. Wate, and have as expressed myself, for his remonstrances against the demeanour

so

of

the

chinese authorities toward this

Government, and have

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wish,

long as public business is not obstructed, to press the question

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of Correspondence.

I cannot

however

refrain

from expressing my surprise that W. Wade should have requested

your

orders

me to defer obedience to for the possible purpose of indulging the chinese authorities in the perpetration of the inhuman cruelties to which they are habitually prone,

nor do I think this

among

the

objects with which the Mitish Colony

was

planted on the Coast of China.

It will be

perceived that I have failed in obtaining through M. Wade the guarantee against torture necessary

to

Carry

out your

instructions and to give effect