F. repeats doing so after a certain date would be regarded as Pirates, and should with their cargoes be liable for forfeiture. The Viceroy replied that unless security from Piracy could be guaranteed along the whole coast of China, - and such guarantee was not at present practicable - he could not give such an arrangement which would deprive trading vessels of the means of defending themselves, was impossible. The time might however come when the efficiency of the Police of the seas would admit of it.
1121. Trong Trong
RECEIVED
JULY 25 1866
Foreign Office
July 23
1866
Sir,
I am directed by Lord Carnarvon to transmit to you a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, on the subject of Piracy in the China Seas.
I am, &c.
Your most obedient Servant,
H. Robinson
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office.