i
and
unless
may shortly
shortly be destroyed "having junks can pass
along the coasts without danger
being attacked and destroyed by Pirates. by
He
and destroyed.
It means at the disposal of
Chinese Govt. insufficient to put down
The Chinese Govt are doubtless
in concert with the 9 Foreign Powers,
but the Chinese Govt may be
assured that its austerities
will find at least the naval
forces of H.M. at all. Forces
ready to cooperate with any
force, however limited, which
the Chinese Authorities
cast on way
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associate
the coast
with them,
and so to
carry out
that concert which both nations
have engaged
to Maintain
themselves to
for the suppression of
an evil which presses heavily, though in different degrees, on both.
You will not fail
will not fail to communicate
to the Officer commanding
H.M.'s naval
forces in China, the result of your representations
to the Govt at Peking.
Jhunde
(97)
Rawendow
to
the