Age
268
be relivined after perusal.
Of the
Course
You
offering
took in
obstacle to the action
of the Chinese Customs in this
matter, I have already approved,
altho' I felt with
you
at the time.
that it would have been more pakis
: factoms if the first time, so heavy
penathj
ivão
inflicted the vessel
had been caught in the act of trading. The plea set up by the
defendant
ivas
a
very plausible
one and had it been suskrined by
evidence I have
no doubt you
would
have suggested a mitigation of Penattyy. The
owner
declares
observe
observe, that his steamer
chartered by
by a
AAAD
Chinese Merchant
well known to him, who hired
it for the declared purpose of
a
lowing up from the west coast
disabled funk and that being imatile to find the funk at the point intimated the Chanterers Agent who accomparmed the shumer xpplied
for the
bin b
which
AD
Mal
CA
of
С
boat to take
town called Ther-hung
situated
up
a river. This
the maske declined to grant for the
reason that
looking vessels
a
mumber of piratical
dvere
looking about
but the Master actuated by the
desire
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