661
since they have been placed under the Foreign
Collectorate of Customs
the trusters of Hong Kony
still harassed
and molestest by a
class
of
armed vessely
equipped by the farmers
of
the
Chinese
and you
furnish
the porticalars of cases
in which acts of violence and spoliation
are
alleged to have
been committed by these
vessels
even
in
Bitish waters, for
which
You
had been
unable
unable to obtain
any
redress
through
the intervention of
Her Majesty's Consul.
at Canton.
2. Shave.
transmitted
a
copy
of your Despatch to
the Earl of Derby, and I have inviteet His Lordship's cooperation
and assistance in
devising
some means
Colony
of relieving the from the action of
these vessels, and
of
inducing the Chinese
Government to protect
its legitimate
nevenn
by