to a note addressed to him by her Petre, that the demi-official
Government fully sympathized with the object contemplated & the legality of it; and if it were then in their power to do so, would willingly concur in promoting it.
And
Answer of the
Portuguese Government
B. De Castro in answer to Sir R. Macgregor stated that the Portuguese force
were about two-thirds
a corvette & Marines with instructions
to combine their special service
This Post with those
for the Suppression
of Piracy,
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and that instructions would be sent to the men already at
Macao
& to cooperate with the British force