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On the prevalence of Piracy in the immediate Waters of Hong Kong, and suggesting measures for the remedy of that evil.
Do the Home Government have demanded a large Military contribution from the Colony, it will be impossible, at any rate for the present, to require them also to support a naval force for the suppression of piracy. Such a force would also appear less amenable to those rules which are necessary for the prevention of disputes with the Chinese authorities, and less capable of concerted action with British Vessels of War engaged in similar operations in the neighbourhood of the Treaty Ports, than Vessels unequivocally forming part of Her Majesty's Navy; and under the control of