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of the year, subject, on the one side to the insolence of Commissioner Lin and the Chinese Authorities for not sufficiently expediting the delivery of the Opium, and on the other side to the displeasure of the Masters and crews of the English ships for not enforcing with sufficient vigour those Measures which terminated in the liberation of the Chief Superintendent and all his countrymen, and the other Europeans and Americans at Canton.
After duly fulfilling these responsible duties, Mr. Johnston, while acting as Deputy Superintendent at the time Captain Elliot was engaged to the North of China with the Head Quarters of the Expeditionary force, was again employed under the most trying circumstances, as his dutiful correspondence with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will show, in endeavouring to obtain the liberation of the Reverend Vincent Staunton through the Portuguese, that Gentleman having been...
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