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to be always stationed at Hongshing
with
A
view to ensuring requisitions which the Officer in Command
may receive from
this Government.
extremely indebted to
your Lordship for this proof of your
anxiety to strengthen the hands of the
local Executive at
a
period,
when unusual
efforts are required to
carry
out the new
Legislation suppressing Piracy.
3.
At the date
of Your
Lordship's
despatch however
you
could not have
been in receipt of my communication
of
the 30th November last, informing you
what I had found it expedient to equip
A...
vessel
at a moderate outlay for the
purpose of providing for the Warlor Staff and Police necessary to maintain the requisite surveillance
at
the various outstations of this Island,
at
which, if neglected, depots
for the equipment of Piratical Craft and sale of their plunder could soon be
established.
11.
As it does not
appear
that the
control over the proposed Gunboat would
be as completely in the hands of the Executive here,
as
might be essential for
the
special duties created by
Ordinances, and as
those duties would
be
extremely irksome to Her Majesty's officers and Sailors, I choose it preferable to continue the