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of the 27th March I made pre- parations for the reception and entertainment of His ~ Excellency and suite. The vessel arrived in HongKong
on
the morning
morning of the sixt
March and I deputed my Aide-de-Camp, Captain I. J. Sterling, to call upon the Grand Secretary in order to ascertain definitely his in- tentions. I enclose a
copy
of a memorandum by the Aide-de-Camp of what took
place
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place at his interview with the Grand Secretary.
6.
From this memorandum
it appears that this Excellency alleged as his reason for not landing a fear of the plague
which he stated was
the Colony.
raging in I have, however, –
good grounds for believing that
this
reason
was not the only for his declining to land, but that his refusal to accept any hospitality in this
in this Colony in a great
was
measure due to
the
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