Judge
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confiscation illegals.
what
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of the charterer or missing Juno - the Master entered the Port influenced by a reasonable fear of Pirates? If a missing clause need be.
else
proved, and if Sir Rutherford Alcock doubt the sufficiency of its evidence of the Master and his
on that point, (as though there could be
any
other evidence) or if he thinks there
have been
I cannot therefore but feel in
common with the Chinese Community and
indeed with all cases here, that
a grievous wrong has been done to a respectable resident, and
one,
who of all
other Natives residing here is the most
when Her Majesty's government
{
such reasonable ground)
be most
indifference
for apprehending capture by Pirates, I am
of cruisers in that neighborhood
manned) and
armed and well-manned,
belief that
a vessel of a kind to induce a belief that she had opium or treasure on board, would speedily convince him of the probability of the only part of the Master's story which is necessary to render the
detention
or mistake
in
judgment would
wronged by any
the part of the
Consuls in China).
Her Majesty's Minister or Consuls in
No doubt Rouse Alcock feels
strongly on the subject and expresses himself
as
he
feels, and it
may
be
very
well for
Sir Rutherford Alcock to declare "his absolute indifference to what those a thing or any of his friends or partisans may
think,"