In acknowledging Keying's note, I informed him that I considered this act in the same light as my payment of the Salt Junk Dollars to the owner, which was num[t] by a steamer, the owner of which had contrived to escape from the duty of making reparation for the injury he had inflicted... I took occasion to add that such a reciprocal regard to the demands of justice and to the obligations of Treaties on all points whatever was at once the best and the only way of perpetuating friendship and good-feeling... The original Chinese Communication from Keying appeared to me well calculated to shew the Chinese inhabitants of Hongkong that they could not commit depredations with impunity, and I have accordingly caused it to be published for their information.
I have &c. (Signed) J. F. Davis
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Since the above was written I have received the enclosed note from M. Gutzlaff, informing me that reparation had in a second case of robbery been made, rather than await the result of another appeal to Keying.
(Signed) J. F. D.
(Jane Lorry) Colonial Secretary
by the consequences