8.
[ and false character of some of the statements thus promulgated, which were in their opinion calculated to do infinite mischief in Canton - and I am that Laon, the Governor
aware
General of
of the neighbouring Provinces- unable to understand ( the total disregard and indifference with which falschoods in the papers have come to be viewed
here in consequence of disreputable character
the
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the
treal Journals is at the local
present moment greatly annoyed at some libellous effesion in reference to himself
which has recently received
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insertion in this chinese paper and which he states to be totally falu; but which might, if it were to reach Peking, be believed, and result in the removal of His Excellency from his office
and
loss
very possibly in the love of
This head.
7.
I have stated enough
I think to prove that the
enormous power for good which the issuing of
a
evil
clivere
newspaper imparts, ought not to be left a monopoly
monopoly in the
hands of unofficial and practically