event reached
the melancholy
and Captain Groubridge of Her Majesty's ship Amazon: the senior Naval Officer at this Station, having volunteered his services to proceed immediately to Macao, left this Harbour about mid-day, - together with H.M's Steamer Medea. These vessels no doubt arrived last night, and I am in hopes that their presence will prove sufficient to ensure the tranquillity of Macao, and to suppress the excitement that must
naturally be expected
in
a
Settlement the Governor of which has been deprived of his
life
in so atrocious and brutal a manner.
Captain Groubridge for the present
will remain at Macao, and I trust the arrival of H.M's Vessels at this juncture will be sufficient to show the Chinese authorities that the British Government fully sympathize with that of Her Most Faithful Majesty, on this distressing occasion, and that the
Enemy will, if evilly disposed, be induced
2. god. As a precaution to refrain from any further acts of aggression.
Yesterday I addressed a Letter to the High Commissioner on the subject of this atrocious murder, and informed him that
I conceived it to be a case in which all the Representatives of the Foreign Powers in China were directly concerned, and that I fully expected that he would cause the perpetrators of the Bloody deed to be at
apprehended, should they have taken refuge within the dominions of the Emperor of China
once
Concluding with you as I do in all
sincerity on this distressing
I have &c.
(signed) IG. Bonham.
(True Copy,)
Colonial Secretary
PT.
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