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but there the authorities by means of native Agency were dept so well
informed of the movements of the
Conspirators
as to be able when the
rising actually accurred to suppress it with the greatet promptitiede.
As it commanded
182.
the Police in the disturbed District at the Mauritius when the circumstances referred to occurred, and was also in command of
Police
the Fcbce at Hongsting during the period of excitement folluing the Fiention Mapacce, I can bear testimony to the comparative feeling of safety prevailing in the former place in contradistinction
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to the great alarm exhibited by most of the Foreign Residents in
Wongstong.
183.
Some little credit was
awarded me
by the authorities
at the Mauritius for the promptitite
with which the
at
my
disposal enabled me to suppress the revolt, and arrest the Ringleaders.
In Homgstong all I could do maz, to Hap my
Keep
men under arms,
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to be prepared for any emergency that might arise without having the remotest idea of the nature
of the evil to be thus
guarded against, or of the time and place; when and where it might arise: