As a force while in British waters, his arrest and detention were not the less practically assured while within them, and it was within them that the plot for his capture was devised.

4. M. minister deeply regrets that so serious a matter should apparently be looked upon as one not constituting a violation of British jurisdictional rights, but as one which concerns China alone, because were this view the case accepted, it would be his duty, however painful, not only to submit to H.M. the necessity for providing against a repetition of similar illicit acts, but also to call their attention to Thy H.E. the Viceroy.

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