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From a perusal of all the papers in this case and Consul Robertson's last letter of the 11th instant, I would remark that, although being of opinion that the Compradore of Messrs Holliday, Wise & Co has sufficiently made use of - at any rate - the Colonial Government, he only did so to put a stop to what was manifestly unjust, viz., coercion on his family residing on the mainland for an alleged breach of contract by himself, while legally speaking he was unable to complete the contract, one of the parties, living on British soil, being unwilling.
There is no doubt in this case that in the first instance the daughter of the Compradore was unwilling to marry the man to whom she was betrothed. In China