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Indemnification from the
Imperial Custans, the only certain Imperial Revenue, would touch the most sensitive chords of the Ohmirese mind, and would arouse the
Government
sharply, than
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öthen argument to this necefsity of protecting their Income from forquent drains for piratical spoliations which
arise from
central.
Pano DO
under cheir non
This Revenue being collected
from foreign Commerce should be made
to
give
such
it protection.
When this is done), in some
MA AMIevi A.J
herein proposed),
piracies will rapidly decline in
frequency,
on the least of China, I
without much foreign intervention
any
other form.
I have N
(sigurd) N. N. Bell,
Rear Admiral
Commanding US. Asiatic Squadron,
(Inne Copies)
Lai Jante Acting Colonial Suntary.