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I had a very satisfactory time at Tientsin. We got through a good deal of business; and, what is most pleasant to me, Frederick seems perfectly satisfied with the whole affair, and the part I have taken in it. ... The Admiral, who is very strong in support of me, had given orders that the whole fleet should be illuminated with blue lights, if I reached the 'Ferooz' at night.
August 9th. ... The 'Ferooz' will not reach Suez till about the middle of November, so you had better not arrive there till after that time. You will have the best season for the voyage, and time to rest here before we go up the country. Calcutta.
Arrived at Hong-Kong on the following day, he found letters from his brother Frederick 'generous and magnanimous as ever' giving him some hope of there being an opening for diplomacy, and a chance of settling matters speedily. In this hope he pressed on to Shanghae, whither the naval and military authorities with whom he was to act had preceded him. Steamship 'Ferooz. At Sea. June 27th.
It was on the evening of March 11th that the 'Ferooz' anchored in 'Diamond Harbour, the same anchorage at which, in the 'Shannon, he had spent the night of August 8, 1857.
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