412

Shuei ting under stress of circumstances - fear of pirates- & therefore might facily

Vessel dreveir by stress

They were

willing to meet -

that

me vvv

Cheing

The

be considered as

of weather into a

non....

ground and profused that twok a

should have his Vessel back on

payment of remember rightly, of mine thousand dollars. I suid I thought four

would be sufficient and they ultimately agreed to that arrangement; and making it the sole object I had was to

carry out your instructions

in

to give Cheong every benefit in the

Treaty port --

Now, as the weathe happened to be remartially fire just at that snie

and no signs of piratical junits about

it can

only be assured that sir

Richard Mac Dowell's rem

remark, "on the

" iluunan seizure of a

such

" refuge in

"foundering" is

Vessel

tating

a port to escape

a little out of plac

ce

Kwok a

matter possible.

lind now I will

briefly revert to-

is always

a

great

deal

of mis

In matters of this kind however there.

Sir Richard Macdonnell's Dispatch. __

nothing in that emurunication

I see nothing

assertions of His Excellency's

but-vague assertivers

intire belief in the mitegrity of Kwok

Cheong

and that his Steamer entered

O'

Shuei

representation and His Excellency

has

doubtless been subjected to that

sort of thing

As

Share This Page