`` we hope , '' hammond said , jumping in at once into the breach of silence , when he saw that temeraire had nothing more , `` that you will be so kind as to convey our deepest apologies , to the governor , and to the shogun , for any action on our part which might have given rise to intimations-to false intimations-of hostility , and make plain to his excellency that the government of britain desires nothing more than peace and future tranquility in the relations between our nations .