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Akee alias Ma Asow wong the informer, thieftaker, and tyrant of our Chinese popu -
lation, and the man whom
as the
Boggs denounced by name the person through whom the pirates purchase protation,
and their victims
are
compelled to do the same or bear the consequences,_ is and for years has been a principal and confidential agent of police for the legitimate purposes of that department.
It can be as little
denied that Mr May. Mr
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Inglis, and, I believe, every experienced officer of Police except Mr. Caldwell, is and has ever been,
been opposed to
that miscreants employment,
and that Mr. Caldwell
himself conceives such employment to be highly dangerous, unbes accompanied "with such checks and quards
himselfcopos
as he conceives himse of applying.
bli
I think that, in a trial of skill like that, the
Asiatic genies must triumph over the European. At all events, the ristr is prodigious.