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a visit at Government House - likewise assures me that he brought the whole subject very fully before this Successor the arrival of the latter, and represents him to be animated by the best spirit and an anxious desire to prevent Macao being longer resorted to as a depôt by the Piratical Craft of these seas.
6. I am never theless quite aware, that reform at Macao will probably be tardy - and I rely on the example set by this Colony being the most efficacious stimulant to our Neighbours eventual discharge of their duty.
The correspondence with the Vice Roy speaks for itself. I can only hope that the results may prove more effective than Her Majesty's Vice Consul appears to expect; - but I still incline to my previous opinion that the most effective aid which China can give is a money contribution to defray the expense of half a dozen first class gunboats to be added to the British fleet in these waters.
8. Mr. Hart, the Chief Commissioner of the Chinese Customs, having recently waited on me, I learned from him, that the measure formerly contemplated by the Chinese government of purchasing a fleet of Gunboats to be maintained at the Imperial expense has been abandoned, and therefore my former suggestion of a pecuniary contribution by China towards an increase of the British fleet