the
their
cannot expect to obtain from Colony the continuance of expense of a gunboat or Gunboats, for the suppression of Wrong. When is also much force
in the objections
to Edo[vich Ausade?] against Chinese Pirates.
Again- you will
see
by the present correspondence that
the Naval authorities
are carrying
operations against the Pirates,
under the sanction of & in cooperation
with the Chinese authorities
in the neighborhood of
Hong Kong's
Ports, so that
the protection afforded by the
Hong Kong waters wd. form part of
a general system
upon the whole, I should be disposed to write to the Admiral
represented by Capt. Elliot representing the
necessity of allotting
one
gunboat to the
at least
service of
Hong Kong,
and mentioning the enforcement & the Military contribution as a
reason for not requiring the Colony, at present,
to provide for its maintenance
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