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30 – 40,000 dollars in value, have suffered so Repeatedly, as almost to drive them
mway
entirely, and where there were formerly three
- only one.
or five,
we have now This wil is
ANTIE de ca
very inveterate, and it is difficult to suggest an effective remedy, which would put a stop te it, and the the Chinese govemment will not avail itself of our cooperation. Could inc, believe the sufferers when they pointed out, their assailante, er discover with sufficient proofs for conviction their haunts, the matter
acould be very easy; long before
forec
can arrive,
they are gone,
however
any and there
are so many harbours and hiding places in
these Robbers, that it would
for
ld Require
much local knowledge, and good information, to apprehend them. But as the Chinese lovemment, on account of possessing better
as for obtaining knowledge of the perpetrators,
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perpetrators, is perfectly competent to bring them to condign punishment, the constant recurrence of piracy, if duly reported to the Supreme Goverment, and the most urgent. and often reiterated Requests to _
put these nefarious wretches down, with a high hand, might rouse it from ste slumbers and indifference. Some vessels Chinese ways
of oure fitted out in the Chinese might cmise about at the Kapsing and Ly-yu-moon with great advantage.
2. The Supplementary treaty which stipulated, that junks should only clear out from the Harbours open to our trade, has fortimately not been carried into force . However the very fact, that four in
besides banton are accessible.
emporia
He to our
traders, with the many intermediate stations on the Coast, makes it extremely easy for jouste. to the nearest sport and buy early
to go
cheap
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