privately they still continue to make up Mails.
Between this Pat and Macao.
and Cauton a set of Fast Bouts are.
expense of something
hept up by subscription of Merchants at an
like £1,000 a year, something like $1000 and their charges to now subscribers are
: enormously high for the conveyance of Letters and Parcels such as 25 bents for a single Letter to Macao, which the Best Office sends for
s for & Cents!
When it is known that a - Clepper is about to sail to the Forth Mr.
Spring informs
me that he has
-
as gone.
board with a Mail but has almost
boast.
to the
always been told that they are going Sir, Islands or in general terms to the East
t of China and will not touch at the Consular Ports; he has therefore not put the Mail on board. On inquiry however he has found that they have gone straight
to
to those.
directed.
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very Ports to which the Mails were
These bessels generally escape being placed in the Harbor Master's Report by
their not reporting themselves as clearing out and they generally do clear out in the
-ht time to avoid carrying
night
Their Commanders are instructed by their Oconers not to report themselves or to give
any information as to their destination
d yet they
or
time of departure, and/ absolutely the only Vessels which touch at the Consular Ports north;
of Canton with
regularity .
It is not to be wondered at when
the cost of maintaining such a fleet Clippers is taken into consideration that
the Commanders of them should be ordered to avoid carrying Mails - each Opium Clipper may be fairly said to cost between £3000
and