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Correspondence
on the subject
with Your Lordship and Lord Aberdeen will have
shown the extent of the evil
the circumstantial
of licenses to
carry
arms
on board
being found piratical vessels seemed to warrant the inference
some
that they received
encouragement from the Chinese Government to trade; but
molest
our
the disavowal of Keying deprives them of any protection from these licenses, and converts the
latter into
a means of
condemnation.
Condemnation is one.
for their
A. Mail Steamer
of the best instruments
capture of
I have
Pirates, and
accordingly the Medusa is now ready for that service.
Time alone is required
for the development
of this Colony, and for the
correction
which
may
of
some
evils
have hindered
its early progress. Even now, however, the town of Victoria, which has scarcely existed three years,
is
fast gaining on Macao, which has been established three centuries.
Our Merchants
have