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numbers of Lorches and other craft are equipped at Macao - and that these vessels sailing under a foreign flag enter the Creeks and bays of the Seaboard of China - where they at times attack villages and carry off the people and at other times inveigle laborers by various pretexts on board, where they are immediately put under hatches, and, as soon as a sufficient Cargo is collected, they are carried off to Macao, whence they are shipped to Cuba in apparent conformity with the Government Regulations.
A.
In the enclosed correspondence, I have pointed out that the parties who invest their money in these kidnapping speculations must be regarded as the best judges whether the Mack's Rules can prevent their reaping the fruits of their enterprise. Consequently, the insufficiency of those Rules is attested by the fact that such speculators never fail in passing their victims, as voluntary Emigrants, through all the Regulations of the Port.
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The injurious effect of these proceedings on the feelings of the