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paid by the Strang Shan Magistrate: to

stle elos Ive

the

Viceroys, who have never allowed the

Emperor to know officially that the Portuguese

refuse to parg

Senior Joda, the Spanish Consul, incidentally

mentioned that the Governor of macarread the

first letter of the Governor of Hong Kong enclosed:

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my despatch No 22 on this subject to mean

that this Consulate had in this

specific

instance)

raved the question. This,

foret

eva s

the

light in

which I

myself read it.

The

circumstance is

is unfortunate if only because:

such a construction is not the true one

My

official relations with the attacao

Government have been most satisfonatory of

lak; and I shall feel disappointed if this

incident renders the transaction of bromess

behoven)

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between this office and the Government of

Macao less facile than usual

I have Jo

(sd) W. J. Hance.

Acting Consul

I

am

forwarding,

XA

before,

a.

copy of this

despatch to the Foreign Office

(sd) H. F. A .