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Russian Forces, and he shad be installed as Governor in my place . He was formerly Governor of Wladivostock, the Chief Russian arsenal in the
Pacific.
3.
Streed scarcely be said that
our Naval Force in China is un
stronger than that of Russia;
and that, if war should importunately break out, we should probably
Capture most of the Russian ships,
Except the ironclad Wladiriir Monomack,
the Hagship of Admiral Crown,
which is said to excel in speed
either of our
tivo sea-going
ironclads, the Agamemnow and the " Audacious " . Of course, if
France
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France should join Russia, we
du
should be, at least for a time, in
greatly
over ruatched, for the French have in Cleina tiventy-four (24)
Men-of-war, (including four (4) ironclads,) Carrying
above 6,000
Officers and Inew, and land forces (including those in both Fouquin and Formosa, ) amounting to
notless than forty thousand (40, 0) ___ A French Naval Officer of high
: rank, who was lately at Haug kong, informed one of the above figures; but
Peking
added that a march, ow
would not be prudent wittiout a further reinforcement of above twenty thousand (20,000); for
Jouquin