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might stunt himself bound to liege in the Port of Hong Kong in an American or a French or an East Indiaman laden with a cargo of tea or other valuable produce and Passengers.
Or conveying Chinese Certainly again the Commander of a British Vessel of War might be called upon to seize and remove to the seat of a Court of a British Vice Admiralty a Merchantman in the Port of New Orleans, which had brought Chinese Passengers without apparently conforming with the terms of the English Act on the subject. It is worth while to consider the feelings which would be entertained in England if an American Cruizer were in the Mersey to make prize of an American Liner, and sail away with her to the United States because she was supposed to have failed to comply with some law passed at Washington.
But the Emigration Commissioners tell us that this is indifferent, because the Commanders of Her Majesty's Ships are only to act in such cases in obedience to the instructions of the Foreign Office and the Collector