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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