4.
well as the enclosed marke
Dice
bags
Colin,
>
the
clues
give so many to identification that is Freellency is somewhat sanguine of your succusing in bringing the crime home to the really guilty farty. He cannot doubt the sincere and hearty cooperation of the Chinese authorities in affording you absistance...
Yo you
acquire
to
be so fortunate as certitude of the guilt of any farties, His Excellency must leave you to decide as to the proper britural by which they should be Cunished. The Biracy complained of is triable by the courts here- the withezer
are here and the simplest
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Course would seem to be to have them tried here...
It is fremature however to disenf that question. The first thing to be
A
one is to ascertain whether such a junk as that which attacked the "Casar
is or is not at Canton and with the aid of the Chinese authorities, in whose
good faith His Excellency has confidenen especially in a when their
every
matter
own Commercial interests
are more concerned than those of any other nation, he hopes that you will be able to afford material assistance
>
in
the
inquiry.-
I love to
(Signed) W. A. Pennie
Acting Colonial Secretory
(8.0.))