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by the erection
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Batteries
on
points, augmenting
and
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Commanding
land and water
organizing a Corps
of
of vol
volunteers
(I was unanimously elected to be their Colonel) I had the satisfaction of seeing the mind of this Community reassured and native confidence re-established. I had the happiness
on that occasion that
occasion that reward,
of receiving
one
to
my
ever the most grateful feelings from force of early associations, the prompt approbation of my immediate chief the Secretary of State himself. Again
in
the winter
of 1856 in the absence of the Governor from the Colony it fell to my
lot to render it service.
at a most perilous crisis, in
suppressing
the
rising of the Chinese
Inhabitants by bringing to bear upon the events at the due moment
that personal ascendency
over
the
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desperadoes of the population which I had gained during my career as
chief Magistrate. It was happily quelled without the loss of a single life, and I was heartily thanked by Sir John Bowring on his return from Canton, in the presence
of the Secretary to the Superintendency for having "by presence of mind and prompt action at the critical moment saved the effusion of Blood in the Streets of the City" - His Excellency
pleased to instruct
me
was
forthwith to report in detail the whole matter to the Secretary of State which I did accordingly.
1858-
- see Despatch N. 196 of 22nd November 1858. No Covering Despatch from Sir John Bowring however accompanied mine, and to this I attribute a simple acknowledgment from the Secretary of State, though how grateful would it have been to
my