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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MAY, 1879.

will ask you not to forget the charming lady at my right, and her family; for, within the last

few minutes, a telegrain has reached them from London, announcing the birth of a grand-child,

so that General GRANT, though still compara-

tively a young man, younger indeed to-day than was WASHINGTON when he first became President,

bas, as a grandfather, added another little link to unite the two countries together. I give you, with all my heart, the health of General GRANT.

General GRANT, in reply, said :-

-I am very grateful to you for your kind address, to which I would be happy to respond, but there is so much personal and flattering to myself that I find it impossible. It is only a continuance of the kind-

ness that I have received not only in England, but in India, and in the British colonies; wherever,

in fact, I have met Englishmen, I have met nothing but courtesy, hospitality, and good-will to myself and my country.

As you have said, I am about to leave the British and pass into the Chinese Empire. I have met no gentlemen so kind as the gentlemen

of England. For this reception, more especially

for the reception in Hongkong, I am grateful, as I know my friends and countrymen at home are

grateful for the kindness that I have been

honoured with during the last two years. I do not know that I can say anything better, nor

anything which is nearer to my heart, now that

I am leaving the British Empire, than to ask you all to unite in this sentiment:

The perpe-

tual friendship and alliance of the two great ∴ English-speaking nations of the world--Éng- "land and America."

The General's toast was drunk by all the guests upstanding. Soon after, the ladies retired to the large drawing room, and at ten o'clock General GRANT, the Governor, and the Aide-de-Camp, with Mrs. GRANT and Mrs. HENNESSY, proceeded to the vestibule, where every person, on arrival, was received and presented to the General by the Governor. These presentations lasted for more than an hour.

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On the 12th of May, a deputation from the Chinese community, consisting of Messrs. NG CHOY, LEUNG ON, FUNG TANG, HOP KI, Ho

AMI, LI SHING, and CHENG CHIN-YEUNG, waited

upon General GRANT at Government House, to present him with an address previous to his departure.

His Excellency the Governor introduced the deputation to General GRANT, and the Honourable A. E. BORIE, Colonel MOSBY, and Major PALMER, A.D.C., were also present.

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