CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 411

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

2o. 17-2 del 1870.

Ack 21 January 1870.√

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400. Houghoug

RECK

C:0: JAN 11 1870

12. Javistock Corscent

Westbourne Turk,

8th January 1870

dir,

With every

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desire to observs all the rules of Courtesy and

respect, as well as to eschew all cause of annoyance or offence, I am

impelled to state that the concluding paragraph of your favor of the 1th inst. in acknowledgment of my letter to Lood Granville of the 26 November

& appeare to me to cast an unmerited reflection

on my

Character, and

has deeply wounded my feelings. I mither suggested the necessity of instituting an enquiry into Mr Caldwell's character, nur int my own

it

further than to crave the priveleys of defending

in Case any aspersion should be cast upon me Calculated, in the Junion of Lood Granville, to shake the integrity, of any of my statements. You have seen proper

with Mr. Caldwell's

As if the characters stood equally implicated and relevant to the state of affair's which I submitted to Lord Granville's notice, and I can draw no other inference

b mis my

name up

q

both

from the tenor and meaning of your words than a desire to administer a

rebuff which I conceive due to myself to appeal against.

Through

it

my

instrumentality, under the invitation of Gouemment

To Thr Frederie Rogers, Baronet)

Under Seanetary of State

Aloneal Office

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