liberdeen,
preventing
may
serve as avv
illustration. This
:
person on being detected in a scheme to commit armed depredations on Chinese refuls, challenged the Consul himself, Captain Balfour, to fight. No. Annes, another Opium merchant, some years ago deliberately set five to the house
to the house of a Chines officer who had offended him by not-
the noise of chopping word under his window. The proceedings of the latter = individual, and the correspondence consequent thereon, encumbered the records of the foreign Office for the year 1836, where he had planned a species of private against the Chinese Government, which (as pemarked by Lord Palmerston) of carried into execution would have pendered him liable to the penalties of piracy. "
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
War
Your
Your Lordships,
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Most Obedient, Humble brant,
idan's