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or plunder by the piratical Graft infecting the surrounding traters.
At the mouth of the Canton River meually crowded with fiching
and trading boats, not a native
Sail is to be
jecu.
The post boat between this
and Canton was
plundered on the
morning of the 255 Intant near
the
Boque
are not
Forts, and the Mail bags
recovered,
yet
un is
there
clue to the disemvery
at present any of the assailants -
Canton itself is still besieged by the incurgents, who have commenced to entrench themselves, and give out that
so somn as
the
J
standing Crop of Rice shall be gathered, large reinforcements will
them.
join
From Her Majesty's Consulate
at Canton I learn that there is a
possibility of the Captors of tochangpre
(the Capital of Hooper recently taken from the Auperialists) being a division
the Nanking Army Southward; should this rumour
of
M
their March
prove corect, the huperial Authorit in the whole Kwangtung Province is in danger.
In this Colony all rigilanei
is cxercised, and perfect quiet
prevails.
Captain Sir William Strate