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day of June last, on the night of which
day
about nine o'clock the Steam vesel
"Corsair" came rapidly up the river from: foul of Your Petitioner's
Whampoa and ran
Junk thereby making a large hole in her side which caused her to fill with water-
Your Petitioner tried hard to save her -- but could not - and she soon after sunk- At the time Your Petitioner told the Captain of the Steamer that with his boat he lost every thing.
That Your Petitioner's Sunk at the
time this collision occurred was anchored
by the stem and stern according
to rQual
custom and was in that part of the
river where all salt boats
anchor :
and that there was
usually
• plenty of
room
for...
the Steamer to have passed at the other side of the river from his boat.. where the
Steamer always passed before- and not- the Sunks that had their
among
come
anchors down, and therefore could not get out of the steam vessel's way
Your Petitioner saith the loss he has sustained thereby is one thousand. and eight hundred dollars, that his ___ friends and neighbours assisted him to -- raise the Junk, but she is so much
Petitioner has no means
injured your
repairing,
or even
of raising her.
of
e of repaying the expenses
That on the eighth day of July
last he presented
a Petition to the Consul
of your Country at Canton praying for... Justice, a copy of which Petition tränolated by the English Interpreter is annexed hereto, that the Consul caused the matter to be
examined into- and letters written to the
English Officers belonging to H. The Steamer "Pluto" then lying off the British Factories at Canton
the truth of his.
inquiring Petition - As these, officers
wvere on
board