CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 248

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Peking

My Lord,

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241

August 20th 1878

Your Lordship will be already.

in

possession of copies of two despotetics written

Mer Maje ohj's

to

by Mr Hance,

Acting

Consul at Canton, upon

rather

em

barrassy

question that arové

lately in consequence

of the publication, at Hongkong, of

a

despatch in which the Governor of the

Colony, Mr. Pope Hennessy, alluded

the Chinese clain over Macao, as

to

territory

of the Empore, in

in such

a manner do

to

alarm the portuguese Governor, and cause)

him to write a

strong protest against any

The

support

Marquis of Salisbury

Jer

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