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67.

Sir,

Foreign Office

April 16.1868.

236

With reference to any despatch won

my

2:22 of

the 5th of Feb., forwarding a copy of a despatch addressed by 4.8. The Duke of Buckingham &

H.

(handos to Sir R. Macdonnell

of

on

the question

the seizure of a Junk by a Chinese cruiser near the coast of Hongkong, I transmit for

of a letter on

4th information a copy of

the

Subject addressed to the Colonial Office by the Board of Trade, to which department the correspondence was referred; I have to acquaint you

that, having called upon 1. ma

&

ex

Advocate feneral for his opinion on the

H.

matter, I have rec? from him a Report to

the following offect.

That it does not exactly appear

Rutherford alcork K. C.P.

in

what