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the owner
te heer
prefering
his chemin for
lofs and damages.
I am entirely at a loss to conceive
what His Covelloney the Governor of Hongkong considers "evidence" or "
"proofs ??
The complament had nothing to produces
but his
ervrr
allegations and those of his
Captains that the Vessel was chartered
cr
dismasted Junk, the
h look for
exiskuce of which has never been proved,
and went four miles up
to a nou
river
leading
treaty port from fear of
pirates, the waistence of whom in that
ANTI
vesinity
japaryphal . -
equally improven and
Lshould not have rehomed to the
subject
Subject but for the public statement
Meeting
-made by the Chairman at a
of the Hougtong Chamber of Commerce
that I had at last been convinced by
Sir Richard MacDonnell of the "illegality"
of the seizure of the Prince Albert". _ This
*
statement so wholly devoid of foundation:
I thought calculated to be eminently
mischievous and likely to mislead
to their injury, and I therefore in
many.
my
despatch to Mr Consul Robertson directed.
him to give it
it an
public contradiction.
unqualified and
At the same time
as it appeared there was no small
on the part of many of the
misconception
community at Hongkong Chriese and
Brihik