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House Comm Admiral
Agent
Board of
B
Foreig
Office
Ord
inright would naturally indicate
that the abstraction took place after
the weighing,
and it can be proved
Ithink very clearly
that their was neither.
exchange
time nor opportunity for the ox
have taken
to be made between the weighing and shipment. That it may
place afterwards, sour not prepared- to state, for the money was usually put into a chop book towed by the Mavy boats, but invariably accompanied
This by a thong escort in the former. I boat was convoyed at the responsibity of the Navy Naily to Whampoa, a
distance of seven-
miles, and it will
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be for them to thou that such pusantions were taken by theen as
the importance of the service demanded
Fright.
and that this money
was afterwards transhipped three times pom the "Castor" 1" to the "Diken" 2nd to
the "Bis". 3t to the Porpent making foun Shipments altogether besides the brak shipment at Canton – Thus the Jurivy.
was in the custody of the Navy prom July to January (the date of the last Chignmen 2 period of marly nine months,
crusting the time occupied by the homeward.
trip of the "Repent whilst each portion of the Ayele which was daily, shipped by
this Department at Canton neve
umained in
ster
charge longer
than
b