Admiral
Agent
Foreign
Office
I'
that, then two officers may be as fortunate in their present endeavours to discover
present the still more formidable fleet of Pirates on the west coast in which case we
feel certain that its destination is inevitable.
While expressing our sentiments of these important services we cannot pass over those performed by Capt. Lockyer of the steamer "Medea" to whom our best thanks are likewise due for the destruction of 5 Piratical Junks on the West Coast, & discovering the strength of these powerful fleets.
To the numerous
We need not point out the necessity of peace & safety in the successful prosecution of trade generally & particularly to a colony like Hongkong which is still in its infancy.
vessels trading to their Country & particularly to those of smaller tonnage frequenting the several Free Ports on the P. I. Coast, the destruction of so many piratical vessels, so powerful both with respect to their size and armament, is of vast importance, and we doubt not that
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it combined with the continued watchfulness and exertions of the Commanders of Her Majesty's Vessels stationed on the Coast, will afford a salutary warning to the Pirates further north, & give additional security to the rapidly increasing trade with that part of the Chinese Empire.
We
again offer our most cordial thanks, and have the honor to be, &c.
Signed John Waltgham Mfg.
Dent & Co.
2nd day of
Gibb Livingston the Bashford
for the Oriental Bank
Chas II. Smart.
Fletcher & Co.
Geo Lyall the Manager
Reid & Co.
To Syme Main & Co.
Jamesin Edgar the Eigarty
Rawle Drunker the
Turner the
hariand & Co.
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