gunboats for that special service, or if unable to equip them at once, could the cast of the wear and objust li defray the cast of the
to
tear and maintenance of that number of first clap gemboats like the Plover to le
added to the present British Noval Pored.
80 new, and writ 80 herse
each
ranging
pover. All the gumboots now empe
employed
deficient in opeed, paver and mumber
au de
of orow?
14.
The whole
would £90,000 per canpared with what China
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attacks by Pirates harbored on Chinese Serritory. I might add that the
expenditure would be trifling
ao
ت
impond with the increased; wealth. and expansion of commuce resulting remmuce-resulting
from the increased security afforded to
honest häden
15.
The
umaining six gunboats
might be fand by Her Majesty's
د
د
Gomment and the Nations more immediately interested in the semmity
нормой
e would not
annum, a new
trifle
of
16.
Empire,
and
the
peaceable traders of her own
ower to the
those of other Nations, whose commered
has been interrupted, and whose property how for a series
of agian bean liable to
Commerce in stree seas.
It is quite clear that at present
AVAL MANP
adopted
are
insufficient te
deter numbers from engaging in Piratical. pursuits in preference to more legitimate occupations, and it is equally clear that
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