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by a recurrence of any of these occurrences.
I also believe that a Report has been forwarded to Washington which that Government will probably be not unwilling to use as showing how inadequate English Law is for repressing such recurrences.
8. I am informed that more recently the English Steamer Coquet has taken Coolies from, I believe, Iwatow and landed them at Singapore in a way, as much to be deplored as in the case of the "Kinsay".
9. An American Gentleman informs me as to these Singapore transactions that Englishmen are engaged largely in this traffic, and that it is becoming a great scandal to both nations, and that we should speedily look to it that "we are not engaged in a traffic almost as bad." I make the above statements solely in order that Her Majesty's Government may know that the evils to be grappled with are real and of far larger proportions than are supposed to be in the Dispatch of the Earl of Kimberley.
10. From Articles on the Emigration Convention of 1866 in the China Review of this year, Vol. 2 and 3,