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for your clear statement of the law affecting the right of the Chinese Government to seize vessels found in non-Treaty Ports
Corroborated as your exposition of the Law on that point is by the weight of Sir Edmund Hornsby's opinion
it can derive little additional authority from the complete Concurrence therein of myself and the present very able Attorney General of this Colony.
As nevertheless the facts proved by Kwok-A-Cheong shewed that according to the Law stated by your Excellency
his vessel should have been released, the wrong which has been done to that Individual remains precisely where I stated it to be aggravated by the fact of its infliction on one who had great claims to British Sympathy and protection.
As however I am informed by Consul Robertson that your Excellency has had before you all the papers and proofs connected with the Case it would be useless to expect your further assistance.
If Kwok-A-Cheong,