There is a minute
the letter referred to in the
handwriting of Sir John Pope Hennessy,
directing
a 14
answer to be seut,
but the paper appears to have
been mislaid without being
acted on.
Jam
now directed to
request you
to
inform
the Viceroy
that these prisoners were discharged
by the Supreme Court according
to the laws of the Colony
that he
and
regrets that he is unable
to comply with his request to
re-arrest these
new
as it is
believed that they in Hong Kong.
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I am to add that
a-
Copy
of the Viceroy's letter has been forwarded to the Right Honorable
the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I have sc.
(signed) Frederic Stewart Aching Colonial heretary
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