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appointinent of a Chinese Consul here.
2.
I perceive that whilst Your Lordship assures me above objections will receive consideration at the hands of Her Majesty's Government that as I had reported despatch No. 65 that the smugglers are heavily armed and that they go in large fleets, Your Lordship may possibly have supposed that they are filled with men ready to fight.
If a Chinese Consul resided here he would have opportunity of protesting against their departures.
"had then armed themselves heavily" and went in fleets prepared to fight "desperately it would be difficult for "Her Majesty's Government to refuse such application, if made."
3.
I do not exactly apprehend how the action taken by smugglers here bears on the expediency of appointing a Chinese Consul at Macao, or otherwise.
4.
Though I do not see how in a free Port like this and in the present state of the Law it would be possible for either this Government or a Chinese Consul to prevent any number of vessels leaving the Port, whether armed or not, unless suspected of Piratical intentions, it is right that I should inform Your Lordship that