The service therefore is only to a certain extent Colonial, as it is connected with that general protection to trade in China the importance of which cannot be called in question:
As regards the police generally and the boat police as a fraction of the whole, a Commission is now sitting whose report will probably result in the adoption of some measures more protective than those at present in action.
I have the honour to be,
with the highest respect,
Sir, Your most obedient, Humble Servant,
John Baisal.
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