Dr Marsh wrote to
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Copies of
this evidence I beg leave to transmit
to your Lordship,
as well as de
copy
of the
note which I addressed
to the Jungli Gamen
with it.
As the act
in connection
act of seizure within
British jurisdiction had still to
be proved, while there would be
no question of the final capture having been effected on Chinese
territory, I thought it best, pending the production of further evidence, to confine my observations to the
grave suspicions which existed
the Capture having been solely
of the
deceit
due to the
means were
within the limite
secretly adopted.
of the Colony by loo a
Sung's captors for the prevention of his
Escape.
Page 235
Shortly after I received Ins Marsh's account
of the affair, he Alabaster, so. In's Consel. at Canton forwarded
a Communication
from
to
a copy of
the Governor
General of Canton upon the subject
of the occurrence
It is dated the
1 of November and contains the
reply of his Excellency to a representation
made to him
on
the
13th of October at Mr Marsh's request by Mr Alabaster's
predecessor
Mr Frater.
The Governor General strongly supported the contention that Wong Fung
had been taken on Chinese Soil and
had.
that