2.
and City, awing to the large. population which
sverged
them and other
Causes,
between
I have been
fully alive to the importance of keeping His Excellenny
l with
rapport
en
matters of any Consequence, occurring here. The time for this having, in my opinion, arrived, Thave the honor to enclose Copies of a Letter Ireceived yesterday from some of the principal British Merchants, and my reply, for the information of His Excellency,
I confes I do not share
in the alarm expressed in this Communication, for
I have seen
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and can learn nothing definite
regarding the rumours which have influenced the writers to address
That there is a strong and inimical feeling against Missionaries
and their labours there can be no
doubt; indeed it was evidenced Cotely by the destruction of a newly erected Chapel at Fatshon, a Town some fiftien
tion miles distant from
Canton, but that it extends to.. the Mercantile Community, I do - not believe. My own impression. is, that in a vast population like that here, there is
e
necessarily rowdy element ready for any
mischief, and it is with that these