details had been concerted with such
Auditors secrecy
between Her Majesty's
Minister the Consul and the Vice
Admiral, that the whole was matured, and the period for
carrying it into execution fixed, such before I learned that
any scheme was in contemplation.
16. If however Colonel Pang Yuk, ascertained by Mr Robertson, had engaged in negotiations with myself as to the most suitable position for the projected Revenue Stations, there is no doubt that I would have brought the matter to the notice of Her Majesty's Minister.
17. It is quite clear however that this Government never obtained from Pang Yuk any information interesting to it. Notwithstanding which Mr Robertson unhesitatingly, Enclosure 1s declares Mr. Smith's memo: affords "ample evidence that the Reports "which had reached him of Pang Yuk's doing were correct." Mr. Smith's Memo: merely contains an allusion to some communication five years previously of an official to Mr. Smith and mentions that in conversation with Pang Yuk, the latter had reopened the question as to what would be the
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