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Sir,
Macao, 25 Aug 1849.
3 P.M.
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I have the honor to acquaint
Your Excellency that I have just received two communications from the Council,
that in consequence of not having obtained a satisfactory Explanation relative to the horrible event of the 22nd inst. it has resolved for the safety of the Establishment to send a Portuguese Force to the Forte de Cerco (or Barrier) to occupy temporarily that post under ulterior satisfactory resolution be come to in the business.
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"The second one is to the effect that the Chinese Fort has fired on the Portuguese troops and requesting immediate assistance.
To this I replied in person to the Council that I was not prepared to wage interference in questions between the Portuguese and Chinese Governments. Inclosure No. 10, declining A's. Government assistance, his Instructions to afford the required
Mr. Bonham in reply to forbidding him from any
26th August, 1849.
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