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not dependent on my outhmity, that if.

f

instance, in

a Chi

of

arrest or deportation.

magistrate of Hongthing appeared to me

obstructive, I should address my complaint

not directly to him but to

من

(Copy)

N° 595.

M. Merer

Sir.

Hongthing,

312 July, 1865.

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I had the honor to receive on

Excettenry his superior = and so to the superiors of

your

the 29th Instant

You

Excellency's

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any officers of Heer Majesty's

naval on

Military Services whose proceedings appeared

to me to warrant

my

I have TE

dissatisfaction

(Signed) Thomas Francis Wade.

Communication of the 8th

As shortly after the date of your

Despatch you

mine separate,

would be in possession of

No

£ 489, 491, and 54y of

24th 27 and 28th ultime and 15th Instant.

respectively, shoving that I followed the

мену

Course

which

you

blame me

for noha

adopting.

and placing the real state

of

the

His Excellency

D. F. Wade, C. B,

H. M's Chargé d'affaires

Peking