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certain penalties the purchase by Chinese Murchants of Cotton at Hongking.
1.
correspondence
2. The action taken, and the between myself and bonaul Robertson, of which the principal portion
in
my
was transmitted
despatch N.392, has resulted in
very satisfactory
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the ifore of the enclosed Roclamation by the Vice Kay prohibiting such combinations, and threatining. punishment to any parties imposing lines on cotton punchased here. This subject may
аэ
therefore be regarded disposed of for the present, though
most satisfactorily
in a
Revised Treaty provision for preventing recurrence of such attempts would still
seem extredient.
3.
dr the sume
sume dispatch
a
dispatch I had the honor
to Actail the capture, by a Chinese Cruiser, of a junk close to this Harbor, on the ground that she had taken in Opium here, which had not been stamped.
at
banton, contrary to a Groclamation ifoued by the Canton Authorities. I stated at the same time that this harbar had been actually blockaded by Chinese cruisers, both
at it's Western and Eastern entrance, with
and seizing
Chinese
om/
a view to searching vefoets outward bound with
opum board. I also transmitted the carespondence with bonaul Robertson on the subject,
including his despatch of the 9th November, intimating his intention to require restoration of the funk seized under the circumstances complained of.