to assure
Your Excellency
that in his private letters to
...
he observes that although he attacked
to the
rumours
annoyance ...
...
of contemplated treachery of the Chinese, yet. Gutzlaff, the Functionary placed
at Chusan by
...
stated that the ... ,
had positive
information that there
...
140 Armed Junks assembled at "Shippo" with doubts
whether they
were
Pirates,
Rather they were National Force, Captain Chads did not think it would be
proper to neglect his information
Permit me
to notice to
Your Excellency that a Naval Officer under such circumstances, would
not
by his instructions be justified
in omitting all proper precaution
The recent unexpected
attack
of My Hop Banditti(?) by(?) 23 armed Junks will have shown
the
Chads(?)
necessity of unceasing vigilance The only steps taken by Captain
the Commander
... were to call the attention of
the Master in command
of the
Rattlesnake, Guard Ship, to the
intelligence he had received, and moving the former to an
anchorage
within signal distance of
Sin-keamoor(?), where the Rattlesnake with a
Crew
of 44 Men, and
mounting only
six guns(?), was
stationed. and I cannot imagine
that this
would excite alarm, or
calculated to
uneasiness to
the Chinese.
I trust it will be
found
that
Captain
Chad's measures have
not had that effect; for I beg to
assure
Your Excellency that I coincide fully in the wisdom of fully abstaining from (not absolutely necessary for our ...)