was done by his orders, and I much regret that we, who are constantly appealing to the Authorities containing to the Chinese anchorage of breaches of International Law should ourselves set the example of infraction. Nothing I hold is more important than a strict adherence to the law of territorial jurisdiction, and nothing I conceive is more likely to entail embarrassment and trouble than a disregard of it.
On the 10th Instant I called on your Excellency and read your dispatch to him. He protested he had done all in his power to carry out the Proclamation, and more than half, but that did not render less necessary a stringent supervision by the Official, whose duty it is to see to the security of the Consulate, and I intimated that if one or two Steam Gunboats were detached for the sole purpose of examining all junks for stink pots and throwing them overboard if found, much of the evil, if it existed, would be remedied, the junk people would soon find out that it would not answer to carry that kind of