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available
warlike weapons.
The
Admnial accepted.
this
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anangement
satisfactory and offered
the services
Her Majesty's gunboats to assist in
conjunction with the Imperial Forces
in arresting all fishing
Those
vessels
of douttful character having
on board. This
arrang
ement was
looked upon both by Ster Majesty's
Consul at Canton and by the Invernon
of Story Kong good results.
upon the
as
likely to lead to
Staving thus torched
measures.
actually adopted wish
which have been
the
view to the
discouragement of piracy, I will now
proceed to state to
to your
Exxcellency
what
what
are
Government
measures
the pinions of Ster Majesty's
to
any
Mrze
such as
extended
arl
advocated in
your Excellency's letter.
In the first place with
regard to the register of
Chinese
junks which has already been
acceded to by the Chinese authorities
The Inds
g
the Admiralty have
expressed their opinion that there
can be
question of
he value of
a
reliable
and that
y
rejister,
regular papers shewing the time
port to which the vessel belonged to each ship registered.
were
given
and numbered it would facilitate The duties
of any
vessels
of war
employed