We assure Your Majesty that the great distance of this Colony from the seat of the Imperial Government, so far from weakening, serves only to lend additional strength and grace to the feelings entertained by the entire community, without distinction of race or creed, of loyal and patriotic attachment to the Throne and to the Mother-country. In common with our fellow-subjects throughout the British Empire, the inhabitants of Hongkong, whom we represent, deplore the sudden and early loss to Your Majesty and to his country, of a Prince whose personal tastes and character, and whose devotion to Science, Literature and Art, recalled the noble example and career of his Illustrious Father, the late Prince Consort.
Signed on behalf of the
Legislative Council of Hongkong,
Legislative Council Chamber, 2nd April, 1884.
G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.
(President of the Council.)
(2.)
The Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hongkong.
DOWNING STREET,
13th May, 1881.
SIR.
I have had the honour to lay before the QUEEN your Despatch of the 5th April forwarding an Address of Condolence to Her Majesty, on account of the death of His Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, Duke of Albany, from the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
The QUEEN was pleased to receive the Address most graciously; and I am commanded to convey to you Her Majesty's grateful appreciation of this loyal expression of sympathy in her deep distress on the part of the Hongkong Legislature, acting for the inhabitants of the Colony, and of the feeling terms in which you have transmitted it.
Governor
Sir G. F. BOWEN G.C.M.G.,
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