4.
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that emigrants, who had revolted,
were
forcibly compelled by large
numbers to return on board on their
first arrival, and that they had already signed a Contract. It adds considerably
to the
Sir C. Murdoch's conclusion
as to the improbable character of such
an
assertion to learn that Chief
Justice Smale
was not in
This Colony
at the time, and that there were no revolts on board of the "Frederic" - but merely the usual gambling quarrels and petty assaults consequent thereon amongst the emigrants themselves - all which cases were
adjudicated on by the Marine Magistrate, and could not in any
case have come before the Chief Justice.
I think
4. It is difficult to imagine
any one with the least knowledge
of this Colony, or of the action taken by this Government from the first in controlling, and finally arresting altogether, emigration to
other
places, rumoured that the Emigrants
were unfairly and cruelly treated, could have advanced such a statement as that emigration is safer legally from Macao than from Hongkong, and that the Coolie Ships from there adopted only the same precautions
daily
as are taken in the line of steamers between Macao-
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