measures to give
The best ground for civil complaint. You will of course report to me without loss of time any regulations which
you may establish subject to my approval. I
With reference to the Royal Battery at Stanley, I herewith forward to you for your information
the despatch from the Earl of Aberdeen, which Lord Stanley intends to address to Mr Davis in
answer to the suggestions respecting the regulation of
Army & Navy & Merchant Vessels in Hongkong & the Chinese Ports, contained in Sir G. Minger's Despatch to Lord Aberdeen of the 20 Feb. No 152.
No 19.-6 April (1844)
W. 162.
My Lord,
Hongkong. 20
A question that seems to require early consideration of H. M's Govt is to have some more defined Regulations than
those which are now in force being laid down,
and supported [should it be found requisite]
by a special enactment of the Legislature, or an
Order in Council; arises from the number of unemployed British Seamen who are
at present at this place, at Macao, and [a few] at Chusan, and perhaps other Ports in China.
It is unnecessary for me to dwell on the fact, that the Laws and Rules regarding this class of H. M's subjects which have been hitherto thought to be sufficient in all other parts of
the Globe,