Wholly interested in the territory occupied by the aborigine tribes (Li) and if labourers accumulate in title from a distance, it is further to be apprehended the disturbance will be the result. The Provincial Government is now ordered at once to instruct the Prefect to enquire whether Caldwell and his associates were or were not invited by Lin Hsing-tai to assist him in his undertaking, and, if so, why no official presentation to that effect was made; whilst the Wa Commissioner is at the same time to interrogate the expectant Taotai as to the reason why Din Minghan has proceeded to the spot with soldiers at his back, the offence committed by concealing by his representations the true state of the affair, with which he must have been acquainted, is one which, it is to be inferred, cannot lightly be excused. The instructions, Your Excellency, the Viceroy are further to be awaited.
In addition to issuing the instructions, the Governor further communicates with the honorable Fouaul, whom he begs to notify the merchants of his honorable committee, (Caldwell, Cohen, and ...).