but to which no
report that on receipt of your Deepatch Sir Hercules Robinson addressed a
Admiral küper of which I enclose copy,
reply has yet.
keen received
here.
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letter to
and to the native population on shore
With
regard
to the former I must point-
out that Honghong is emphatically a free-
port, and that
any
vessel Chinese, British, or
Foreign has aright to enter therein and so
Admiral Küper sailed from this
& ultimo, and has noo I believe
on the 27th u
finally quitted the station.
Under these circumstances I am equally with Sir Hercules Robinson unable
to make report on any practical measures
that
have
Küper,
May
which
ocensed
do Siv- Auguetus
report
Siv Herentes Robinson
1
considered would have been the meat.
Convenient
form of answering the Complaint:
are
The remarks of Admiral Küper directed to the Native vessels in the harbor
long
as
her
Crew Commit
no Crime
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against the laws of the Colony, there to
remain unmolested.
An active supervisim is maintained over all vessels in harbor, by the Harbor Master over British and Foreign, by the Registrar - General
and Water Police over chinese or native.
to prevent
This supervision is so exercised as crime within the jurisdiction of this ~ Government without unnecessarily restricting,
of
vexationsly interfering with, the operations
Frade.