working the partiality with which the sanitary office is proceeded to the prejudice of the "firce' ; for which purpose, and in order that Your Excy may be fully informed of all the details, I forward accompanying copies of the correspondence, which defer.
Your Excy cannot fail to perceive the want of consideration with which the Governor of the abovementioned colony, Sir Richard MacDonnell, treated the "Line", which was therefore Schooner "live", which was obliged to return to Manilla, although it had orders to wait for the European mail and to bring the correspondence, for which HM Steamer "Malespina" being handy was constituted, that vessel fortunately in the port at the time.
I consider it an unavoidable duty to remark upon the excessive strictness practised by the sanitary authorities of that place, and the unusual severity which the British officials exhibited towards the Commander of a vessel belonging to a friendly nation; both for the purpose of inducing Your Excy to contribute towards the adoption of suitable measures for the due restriction of such harsh proceedings, and in order that a less severe judgement may be passed on the conduct of the sanitary authorities of Spain, than that which is generally and erroneously formed in treating of that subject, as appears to have been recently shown by Mr Graham Junior, Consul for Sanitary Affairs at Canton, in the harsh and injurious observations in the official report which the public papers state that he has addressed to the Government of which Your Excy is a member, to assert respecting...