here under peculiar circumstances with a Cargo of Coolies from Macao-bound for Stavennak.
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I had expressed to the Governor, then recently arrived, my apprehensions that he would find much difficulty in obtaining trustworthy Staff to carry out any good Regulations and effect to the excellent intentions given by which he professed to be animated, when a visitor at Government house here on his way to Macao. His reply is characteristic and one of which nothing can be made.
Enclosure-3.
Yorum Sir Mickard. Gravis Macdminelli
5. April, 1867.
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Subsequently on 5th April - when thanking him for returning an unfortunate resident here, who had been inveigled by Macao Crimps on board a vessel at Macao, I drew attention to the notorious manner in which Kidnapping was carried on by vessels regularly equipped for the purpose at Macao- and inclosed for his information a copy of the letters of Proceedings of this Officer's Commanding Her Majesty's Gunboat "Drake" at Swatow, who, at the instance of Her Majesty's Consul there, had captured one of those vessels, and I may observe that any denial of the