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this despatch

3.

On the 15th instant I

addressed to Your Lordship the following telegram:-

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Admiral Courbet died of

fever on the 11th instant."

This mournful intelligence of the death of the m able and distinguished Commander- in-Chief of the French Naval - Forces in these seas was communicated

to me on the 15th instant by the

of France at Hongkong, whom I requested to convey

Consul of

to

Admiral

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borrect

Admiral Lespès, who has succeeded to the chief command, a message

an

my

own

of sincere condolence on behalf, and on that of my Government, and of the English Naval and eMilitary Officers

on

this Station. I have always maintained the most friendly ~ relations, officially and personally, I

with all the French Authorities in this part of the world; and I. have frequently received from them and from the officers of the

other foreign nations who have

visited