CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11] — Page 159

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chief Representatives of England in this quarter of the globe, namely,

the Governor of Hongkong and Her Majesty's Minister in China, should be on the most friendly terms, personally and officially; and,

that the Chinese Authorities should know that this is the case, the Governor should make a point of seeing them together; - as the quest of the Minister at Peking, and the Minister as the quest of the Governor at Hongkong. It is further thought useful to the English Legation in many ways; and that, in particular, I have facilitated its proceedings by establishing a cordial understanding (very different from the relations sometimes existing between English and French Functionaries elsewhere), with the French Minister and Admiral in China. Again, Sir Harry Parkes and all other competent judges, consider that the sort of sullen isolation, almost like that of Chinese Mandarins of the old school, maintained by certain ...

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6 157 chief Representatives of England in this quarter of the globe, namely, the Governor of Hongkong and Her Majesty's Minister in China, should be on the most friendly terms, personally and officially; and, that the Chinese Authorities should know that this is the case, the Governor should make a point of seeing them together; - as the quest of the Minister at Peking, and the Minister as the quest of the Governor at Hongkong. It is further thought useful to the English Legation in many ways; and that, in particular, I have facilitated its proceedings by establishing a cordial understanding (very different from the relations sometimes existing between English and French Functionaries elsewhere), with the French Minister and Admiral in China. Again, Sir Harry Parkes and all other competent judges, consider that the sort of sullen isolation, almost like that of Chinese Mandarins of the old school, maintained by certain ... former ...
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157

chief Representatives of England in this quarter of the globe, namely,

L

the Governor of Hongkong and Her

Majesty's Minister in China, should 2 be on the most friendly terms,

personally and officially; and,

Inert ovYT

that the Chinese

Authorities should know that this

is the ease

the Governor

by seeing them together; -

as the quest of the

Lor da

munister at Peking, and the Minister es, the quest of the hovernor at

Hongkong. It is further thought

useful to the English Legation in

partientar

many ways; and that, in I have facilitated its proceedings by establishing a cordial understanding (very different from the relations sometimes existing between English and French Finetionaries elsewhere),

with the French Minister and Admiral in China. Again, Sir

Harry Parkes and all other competent judges, consider that the sort of

- suilen isolation, almost like that

m

of

that my hearty support will prove

Chinese Mandarins of the old

-school, maintained by certain

useful

former

!

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