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the Civil Hospital which exists in your Colony pending opportunity in the shape of the return to England of a Man of War of forwarding him home..

I have some reluctance in troubling you with the man although he came on here some years ago from Chefoo I would have kept him here but in the absence of appliances it is impossible to afford him the attention he requires.

here without greater expenditure than the facilities something affords will render necessary and on the principle laid down by The Government with regard to the relief of distressed seamen, for whose relief the Imperial Government in all cases pays, they should be retained at the ports in China.

Hong Kong is commonly suggested would appear to dictate my adoption of the step.. I have Communicated with the man's relatives who appear to be settled at Richmond in America, but have received no reply from them.

I enclose certified Copies of the Warrants directing his confinement as a lunatic and his transport to Hong Kong and have addressed Copy of this dispatch to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for

16 July, 1872.

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318 ! the Civil Hospital which exists in your Colony pending opportunity in the shape of the return to England of a Man of War of forwarding him home.. I have some reluctance in troubling you with the man although he came on here some years ago from Chefoo I would have kept him here but in the absence of appliances it is impossible to afford him the attention he requires. here without greater expenditure than the facilities something affords will render necessary and on the principle laid down by The Government with regard to the relief of distressed seamen, for whose relief the Imperial Government in all cases pays, they should be retained at the ports in China. Hong Kong is commonly suggested would appear to dictate my adoption of the step.. I have Communicated with the man's relatives who appear to be settled at Richmond in America, but have received no reply from them. I enclose certified Copies of the Warrants directing his confinement as a lunatic and his transport to Hong Kong and have addressed Copy of this dispatch to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for 16 July, 1872. MAbril 1872

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the Civil bapital which exists in your Colony pending opparctivity in the shape of the return to Angland of a Man of War of forwarding him home..

I have some reluctance in troubling you with the man mns although he came on here some years ago from toughong would have Kest him here but in the absence of appliances it is imposible to afford him the attention be

requira

here without for greater expenditure

than the freilitis songthing ffords will render mcepary and

principle laid down b The Government with regard to

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MAbril 1872

16 July, 1872.

relief of distressen seamen, for

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whose relief the

the Imperial

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in all cases plays, they should be retained at the forts in China.

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Hong Kong is commy

suggested would

apperr

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my adoption of the step.. I have Communicated with the man's

relatives who

appear

to be settled

t Richmond in America, but have

recived no

reply from them

I encore certified Copies of the Warrants directing his confinement

as a matic and his transport to Honghong and have addrejed Copy of this dispatch to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for

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