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The Derkes greatest

Impel

s greatest fursonal friends & most trustent illfred How for de howing not on

Hole Officers

their own abo

me but telling

only In.

ood.

fab

strongest regardo for

me of the ing and high opinion, wel hit

Soccastray, had of me. Recously

Lieutenant General

junior

the service but not in a

a

to me in

E Avus em -

-played

ad over

my

a ya head although,

h he

had completed his fiva yraw Com-

mand 40 a

owing

To

only

Major General, while

my promotion, I had,

shree out of my five years.

With

my

letter

of

The 1 of th

19

Feby: Denclosed copy of General Wm: Lagardo reprint of the Public. Md.

-dress that was presented to me

مرگ

the community of Hong Kong.

and which, like

by

my lettes, was

MOUNT MASCAL,

BEXLEY,

KENT.

received in silence. It

been thought

cht at

at

240

may

have

the Colonial office

that this Addres, was

got up by

means similar 10 those by which Sir George Bowen's dinner was pro-

· moted; but I can most solemnly

and

sincerely declare that I never gave the slightest glinenior of a kinks

suggestion, that I wished for, expected, any expression of public or other opinion about mejor an

any

act of mine, while I held the Mali- sary Command in China and the Straits Settlement. And as for my

higher!

wife, she has, if possible

and Reener cense than I have as

-to the disgra

ace that sould attach

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