tham 400 men and too cannons. These results achieved at
great cost and considerable
inconvenience are valuable not s much to British interests as to
Chinese Commerce, and to the Chinese authorities by relieving them in part of those obligations which they owe to the civilized world to keep and maintain the
Police of their
own seas.
Sherefore
those returns must be held to
& constitute a strong claim on the
energetic and of the Chinese
so
authorities
Mow
that they have
leisure once more to attend to
their flain duty in euch matter.
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His Excellency doubts not that
you will be able
afaure
himm
of the willingnes of the Chinese authority in the important Province adjoining this Colony to adopt at last some comprehensive fractical measure in which the Excentive here may if
possible join for the enfpresion of Giracy and the disarming of all dunks, save those belonging to the chinese Government-
I have, He,
(Signed) W. F. Mercer,
Colonial Secretary-
(Dome Copy.)
Colonial Secretary..