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for cruisers in Victoria harbor.
6. Having afterwards despatched the Apistant Harbor Master, Mrr Sonnochy
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to, and make a full report of the proceedings of the two refpels
question His Excellency
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wruch annoyed
to learn the pratical acts of which they had been
quilty and to find that he had allowed them to escape without inflicting on them the punishment which those disgraceful proceedings so justly merited.
17.
In
my Despatch of the 18th October
I had the honor, by desire of the
(No. 543) Governor, to
it
to draw
your
attention to the.
of the
unfriendly and improper conduct of
Officer kommanding the Revenue Commiser
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Hai ching who had on meterat of preventing
the smuggling of Opium beized a funk
Sailing from Hongkong in the immediate
vicinity of this harber. For that act His Excellency still hapes that an adequate indemnity may be procured, and that the Vice Pays sense of the irregular of the "Hai chings
Commander
be marked in some
concluct
may yet
manner
sufficiently
strong to prevent any similar future misunderstanding
between the British
and Chinese Authorities.
8. The case, however, to which I now
draw
your
attention is
a lar mare
of a far
aggravated description, and Heis Excellency
feels compelled to exepres his hope and just expectation that a Severe and adequate punishment may
be inflicted
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