dated the 30th Ultimo and writes therein of the present condition of Piracy in these waters as well as from Canton.
2. I certainly was under the impression - very generally shared - that the diminution of Piracy in the neighborhood of Hong Kong and Canton during the last two years and a half was mainly owing to the stringent Legislation adopted here, whereby a complete Registration of all Native inhabitants of the town and an active surveillance of all Native vessels and their movements is enforced. I therefore perceive with no regret that Mr "Robertson can see no cases of Piracy occurring except in the neighborhood of the Hong Kong waters "the presumption being that they are plotted in the Chinese town, and Committed by fishing vessels sailing from Hong Kong and bearing the Registration Number, A, A."
3. The extraordinary diminution of the Number of Piracies in this neighborhood by the diminution of the facilities, which the absence of all preventive measures had formerly created for dangerous characters who took up their residence here, and plotted their raids on fair traders is so remarkable that...