CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9] — Page 46

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I forbear present comment

before you, I

on your Despatch,

above quoteds.

and await a reply

I must however ni

to mine

Siv

Rekking July 192 1865.

I have the honor to acknowledge

justice to mpeelf

the receipt of your

Excelliney's Despatch

be

permitted

smilled to umano

uemonstrate

agoniste

(།,པམཱ

exparte.

Lefore

me

Coelusion arrived at on an

statement, which is not even now

I have to

(Aigned:)

W. P. Mercer,

Acting Governor and Commander in Chief-

Separate of the 211

th

ultimo inclosing

Memorandum, as well as of your Despatches

N: 489 of the 27t and no 491 of the 29th

ultimo

The Subject of these is the refusal

of the Provincial Government of Canton to certain Treaty provisions; the

to

cinform

discourtesy shown by the Chinese Government

Central and

provincial, towards the

Government of Honghing, lastly the

This Excelleney

M. I. Mercer loge.

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