and the "Providencia" have, I believe, required especial notoriety.
The added tonnage of all the Ships I have marked is about 10,152; a reference to the Harbor Master would readily show what number of Coolies such a tonnage would carry.
I beg respectfully to call the attention of His Excellency The Governor to this state of matters in this Harbor. The legitimate trade between this port and the whole of China is, I believe, very limited indeed.
According to former practice, these twelve vessels, or most of them, are now in preparation, probably down to the Grade... I fear that a searching examination just previous to the papers being given would demonstrate the accuracy of the representations made to His Lordship, to which Lord Kimberley refers in his Despatch, Hongkong, No. 173, dated the 20th November last, a copy of which your Excellency forwarded to me.
One of my decisions in a Case - now more than eighteen months since, I referred to the fitting out of Ships