4. unwilling to allow Mr Robertson's Statement to pass without comment.
4. Jean can of course only speak positively as to the Number of Piracies which are reported to the Authorities here, but as a general rule almost-all Piracies occurring within 100 miles of Hong Kong are sooner or later reported to the Police. I have by Return which I enclose, and which was prepared for another purpose—but on which gives much information on the point now under discussion. It is a summary of Reports of cases of 57 Piracy and Robbery, in Chinese Waters, meaning thereby waters not Colonial, reported to the Police from January 1864 to 14th August 1869. – In the three years elapsed from January 1864 to January 1867, at which latter date the new Legislation here came into force there were 109 Piracies.
5. Unfortunately previous to the 1st January 1867 - when a new system for preserving the Reports of Piracies was established, Piracies were reported to the Harbour Master, the Magistrates and the Registrar General as well as to the Superintendent of Police. Of these no record exists, and W. Deane, the Superintendent of Police computes with much probability that the cases reported elsewhere, as above, amounted to at least as many as those