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expressing
the Acting English Consul his "deeply grateful feelings to me for having issued, under the circumstances already stated, a proclamation prohibiting
temporarily the export of arms,
which were
being conveyed to the insurgents
in the disturbed
district about fifty miles north-west of Hongkong.
2.
However, I yesterday
received a further communication from the Viceroy asking that the Proclamation might now be
revoked,
seeing that the outbreak had
virtually been suppressed by the Chinese troops despatched thither
from Canton.
3.
It is, of course, desirable
to encourage
in this community the
most perfect freedom of trade compatible with safety and international obligations. Consequently,
with the advice of the Executive Council, the Proclamation having
apparently answered its immediate purpose, has been revoked. It is stated in well-informed quarters
that