Admiralty
Fro-Chow - for which their Lordships have been offended - has not been found to answer the objects for which a Consulship is maintained at that place.
Some officers appear to have been sanguine that Manchester would have been a very desirable place for Consulship, but Commander Cracroft in his report, which I have the honor to enclose, states his decided opinion that a consular establishment would not serve any positive benefit for British Commerce in that quarter.
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Sin... I have the honor to state that, in compliance both with your instructions of the ... and with reference to the private and Confidential note which accompanied them, I have exercised the duties of the Chinese waters in H.M.S. under my command.
To Captain M'Kie, H.M.S. Cleopatra, Senior Officer...
Charles Austen Rear Admiral Commanding in the East Indies
19 July 1850
Reynard at Amoy