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this

of the Government bowe Story. In the Dining room is a full length portrait of King George the Fourth by his Thomas Lawrence.

of

This fine painting

which measures ? feet 6 in: by 6fect7m: was at one time in the position the hart India Compain, at Canton. When hostilities broke out in the neighbourhood of that City, it was removed for cafety to Incas and afterwards to HongKong, where it call, remains

2.

Four smaller sortraits

of

the Royal Family were purchased from time to time by the Hongkong

Government, that is, a picture of

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Iter Majesty The Queen in 1852, pictures of the Prince and Prince's

f

Wales in 1869 and 1870, and

the Duke of Winburgh

a portrait of the Duke

in 1872.

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Formerly these pictures

of the

were in the Central vestibule house; a rather dark apartment, but within the last few weeks, they have been transferred to the principal reception room where they

are in a better light. Soon after making this

4.

change I had occasion to receive some of the native gentlemen of