at Your Excellency's suggestion I am not unwilling to make
the defendant,
to
give
decision of
his
Casc
ever
an
after
buy
the
effort
the
Come
- petent Authorities, another opportunity of proving the veracity of his shake-
-ments; I have mpelf grave
on
doubts
the subject from the absence of all patisfactory evidence in the first
instance
I must add that looking at
the prevalence of smuggling
an
the
Western Coast, and the grave prejudice
to the Chinese Revenue it entails, I
think in amy
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where a vessel
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the presumption is entirely against the of the parties concerned, and
innocence
consequently that the whole
onus
of
forewing it by undoubted widence
justly
les
upon them, and on failure there of the Chinese Government is perfectly entitled to inflict the highest penalty of confiscation.
Jam
soury
I cannot
Concur
with Your Excellency in regarding former acts of leniences a just plea against amy subsequent severity for a repetition of the offence, and con a =timation of the
wrong by other vessels. I confess I think it affords
on the contrary a phrong argument