House Comm

Admiral Agent

Board of

Bo

Foreign Office

Ordi

Tre

last figu

And

is sometimes partly hid by the crow; the ink of the 30` is of a different shade

of blackness.

that the Rope

Captain Nevill also says forming the handles of the auspected Box in

of the same texture of gases, and the knoto

not

are tied inr le

manner. Moreover

different me

the Lead in not of the description of the Big

board Her Majesty's Ships of War; and the pieces of Birch word weed in the stowage of the Box, are declared

pequently applich by M. Routh to be such

lead which is received on

Bar Are

for fuel. at Canton alt is perther suggested

the letters marked or

in, upow

stamped in,

that

several

of the Cut pieces of Lead, forming when placed 2 Ingots

together a distinct name, may

187

the Box W. 130 should be repacked with. the Lead and the other substances it contained

and inclosed in an Outer case with two of the ther Roves to afford

the

theas

of a

comparison, to be consigned at the earliest

Opportunity to the Governor of Hong Kong, in

: wanting may

order that the evidence now.

the

be supplied, and the investigation completed spot: so as to recover, if possible, the value of the Lycee Silver abstracted, and to the perpetrator of the frand to justice.

I have be

bring

C. W. Full

be the

sneak

1 Ingot mar

arc

of discovering the manufacturers

or vendors stuttleg

B.7.

1. Brin

of that metal, which is considered to be American Lead. For their Lordships further To Foll information on

on these points I and to transmit

the enclosed Copics of letters from Capte Revill and Mr. Routh, marked A and B.

After the fullest consideration & engiuries

that ca

be made in this

Country,

the Master

of the Mint subsuits to their Lordships that

the

1

( Lip. 1 Sa M. Morrison

The Papers transmitted in original

herewith returned.

E

MC

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