Chinese hostility Towards all Foreigners is well illustrated in the enclosed letter from Her Majesty's Consul at Swatow; and though it may be beyond my province to suggest any actions in a matter, which lies outside this Colony, I must say that the Slave Trade now carried on at Macao, with all its attendant evils of outrage, injury to persons, and violence, is a scourge to all classes whose commercial or other interests bring them to China, and its continuance is a standing disgrace to every civilized Government. I therefore hope that means may be found by Treaty or otherwise to abate the nuisance, though I myself can see no effectual mode of preventing Macao from continuing to be the main resort of Pirates and Kidnappers, except by restoring it "de facto" to the Chinese Government, to which it still belongs "de jure".
Enclosure M/ Auch February 1867.
Enclosure & 2. 30th November, 1866.
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The enclosed correspondence commences with a reply of Governor Swatow(?) to a communication from myself stating my inability to arrest and send to Macao the Master of a Russian Barque, the "Avon", which had put in...