This evil is
very
inveterate,
and it is diffient to suggest. effective remedy, which would
du
put
d
nore t
stops to it; and the
as the Chinese Govern = - ment will not avail itself of
ce = operation. Coould onc believe the sufferers when they pointed out their Assailants,. discover with sufficient proof for conviction their berunts, the
matter would be
very lovey;
long before howwer any fire.
Com
arrive, they
are
there are so many
and
gone, an harbours
and hiding places for there
Robbers, that it would requires
unch
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much local knowledge, and
good information to apprehend_ them. But as the Chinese Govern = -ment, on account of possessing
better means
for obtaming
know
-ledge of the perpetrators is perfectly competent to bring them to condign funishment, the constant recurrence. of hirney, if duly reported to the Supreme Government, and the most urgent and often reiterated requests to put these nefarious wr down, with a ligh hand, might. it from its slumbers and indeffroux. Some Vessels of
ours
retches
fitted out in the Chinese
way
rouse