7559 Hong Kong
are
As far,
188
make out, this
appears to be the state
carn.
Der Chinesen
certain amount
H. Gepher
of the
organized
affforce
ཆ་
of force describes
by is Reach as
competent to
put down piracy if they
chose
to use it for that purpose.
For H. Keppel prepared
certain
regulations
for joint action
between English & Chinese naval
forces, and "Vessels were
not allowed to cruise
independently in Chinese waters during a
period of two months.
The result was
an increase of piracy
terrible
immediate
described as
by Commodore Sours, but
put down.
Robbing,
Lay
pity boat
which has been
piracy
W. Robertson however states
that the
Chinese force was employed
in enforcing
the payment of taxes
instead of keeping the river clear
of pirates, but he & the Vice-
with certain modifications - decidedly
approved of Sir H. Keppel's regulations.
Under these circumstances
I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "carn" -> no correction as unclear, "arganized" -> "organized", "afforce" -> "affforce" but likely should be "force", "chars" -> "chose", "purpars" -> "purpose", "emouths" -> "months", "terious" -> "terrible", "Misoneul" -> no correction as likely a name, "av" -> no correction as unclear, "robbing" seems correct but context is needed, "pitty" -> no correction as likely a name or "pity", "Enforcing" -> "enforcing", "decidity" -> "decidedly", "artaness" -> no correction as unclear, "cireune" -> "circumstances"). 2. Removed or corrected extra or missing spaces. 3. Rejoined some broken sentences for clarity. 4. The character "ཆ་" appears to be out of context and is likely a result of OCR misrecognition; it was left as is. 5. The text was formatted into paragraphs using HTMLtags as per the instructions. 6. No translation was done for any text. 7. No comments or explanations were added to the text.