the Trade in
be obtained by the settlement of a Tariff, and the manner of carrying future.
As
it is
with
regards Hongkong,
great
concern
I have to inform your Lordship, that
the most serious
crime of
nature
it
has increased ; and will, I fear, continue to do so until some provision made for checking it by suitable punishment. There are at present confined in the Jail of this Island several persons charged
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with Capital offences, and against whom there is clear evidence of guilt; but not feeling myself authorized to
Sentence of the
award requisite severity, they remain untried.
Besides the cases
of
Homicide and Murder,
to
which I allude, gangs of
Armed
men, landing from
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the darkest
of
late
Boats nights, have frequently attacked the houses of persons residing in places
little removed
from the populous parts of
the