Her Majesty's Government on this matter have not reached me until the whole question is in a way of satisfactory arrangement by the legalization of the emigration of voluntary Immigrants, atrocities of which Macao has been the scene and in which too many of the low population of the locality have been participators might have involved British Shipping and British Agents in questions of the most embarrassing, not to say the most discreditable character. We are now freed, and happily from all connection with the slave trade proceeding at Macao.
The Governor of Macao, too weak to check the frightful abuses with which the cupidity and rascality of Chinese Kidnappers have associated Coolie Shipments of that sort, has found it necessary absolutely to prohibit the departure of Coolies in foreign vessels. An examination undertaken at my urgent request led to the liberation of a great number of Coolies who had been enticed or stolen and were confined in the barracoons, as well as of others, who on the representation of their families were released by the Governor's orders.