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visited Hongkong, their grateful

sense.

assurances

of

of the courtesy

and hospitality with which they

have been always treated in this Colony.

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Admiral Courbet had

on

felt acutely the painful position in which he had been placed by the obligation of earrying reprisals against the Chinese for a lengthened period, without a ~ formal declaration of without power to deal a really previously

decisive blow. He was

war, and

worn

and anxiety,

worn out with fatigue and

and succumbed to a severe attack

of fever on the 112 his Flag-phip at the Pescadores Islands, the scene of his latest. success. His death occurred only two days after the signing of the Franco - Chinese treaty on the 9th instant. General regret is felt by

on the 11th instant on board

the residents of all nations in this cosmopolitan Colony that, after such good

service to his country,

Admiral Courbet should not have

been able to return to France to

enjoy