4.
The German merchants in question printed the Acting Colonial
Secretary's litter (a copy of
enclose and it was
Juel A. 1.
I which I 24th have
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brought to the
notice of the Governor of Macas.
His Excellency Senior Carlos Engenio бей Concin da Silva thereupon wrote to
Mul
the 8t Ultimus saying that
the interpretation given to M. Prices
that it manifested
lettes was acquiescence in the pretentions
of
the Chinese Government and gave rice to unfavourable inferences I replied that I did not consider the Acting Colonial Secutary's letter bore the interpretation which it was
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stated had been put upon it; that
I had not presumed to exprep any
osinion of my own
!
respecting the
sovereignty of the ancient Ixtinguere Colony of Macas; and that I had confined myself to repeating what had been so often recorded, the impossibility of the Houphous Government interfering in such cases account of the expreped views the Chinese Authorities. I added
few friendly works as to the
relations between Macas and Hongkong, and the renewed prosperity which undoubtedly Macas
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is
under
enjoying, the Señor Correia de Silon's
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