Hous

Comm Admira

Agent

32

Board of

Fore

Offic

to exercise Chinese Civil Jurisdiction.

Inmediately upon the receipt

of the Orders of the hajor General,

and the other

I wrote to keen. ling Commissioners to inform them of the orders I had received, and at the same time I invited them to Come over at once to Lingkae, that I might deliver over to their Civil Jurisdiction the bland of

Chusan .

The Commisioners to postpone their

loere

voyage,

obliged

in

деhe Consequence of the boisterous

state of the locather, and the

wind

wind being unfavourable, and-

Aware

Lea

of their apprehensions fa Voyage, it accursed to me that if Captain hupell, commanding 4.2.5.C+ Steamer hemesis, then lying a

kingko,

at

were to offer to convey them acrop, they would not only consider it a high compliment, but an act of Great kindness and consideration. Faccordingly wrote to Captain hupell, who most obligingly

-obligingly entered into

my views, and made the proposal to the Commissioners to convey them to Chusan in the hemesis, which

they

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