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to the general commercial prosperity of
this place,
ао
being auxiliary to the efforts of foreign merchants to extend the bale
of British Manufactures. It is therefore
dvious that
supotem
such
ncement of
as
I have
sanction of
It
was
impossible that, as Governor of the bolony, I could permit such an
unjustifiable blockade of this harbor in
Peace
time of
under
any
circumstances,
and accordingly Your Grace will purceive
Vide bolonial that I drew the attention
Secretory to Consul th November 1867 to
1867 to the
the sule
subject and impresed
of bonoul Robertion
in the
strongest
on him the
wanner-
expediency of
requiring restitution of a punt sized
described, and the commencement
which had been actually inaugurated
by force without the slightest legal
International
Special Treaty, might
time have operated
short
usage,
ar
in, a
very estoppel to
for so insufficient
a reason, and so close
{
to
our shores. The banoul's
reply of
OUR
a
all direct bhinese intercourse with this
Colony,
Iblow
inflicted a serious
and have inflicted
on the Commercial interests centred
here by the advantages of British Rule,
and the admirable convenience of the harbor.
the 9th instant shews that he had at
once
appreciated the gravity of the
circunstâncies and had
that
امی
recommended.
my requisition for restoration of the captured funk should be set with. I therefore apprehend little immediate
complied