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jous

com

:

nir

to

this

and Boats

Boats is

by the armed

Colony in

native sunks

vessels

comparatively paralyzed

which infest

and almost blockade.

to

harrazo

passage of

ard of

the East, and

may be

the Lyemoon

the Capsingmoon

and other channels.

on

the west

delicate question

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reciprocal, and

the right of the chinese loverment to the respect

and abstinence in question must be altogether dependent on the fulfilment

of it's obligation to

Afford requisite protection, I have

this and

Drauss

the

on

several previous occasions

to the attention of His

Excellency Rying the necessity to

to determine at what point the right of self defence, and the duty of protecting the lives and

Property of Her Majesty's Subject

which we

may

be

won driven,

by the inability of his Iovernment to put down Piracy,

or

to

dispense with that apistance and

are

to prevail

over

the respect

which

i

undoubtedly due

the in

Co Operation which

were

Ang

long

jirst instance to the independent

rights of China; but

rights and

ao

all

obligatioin are

reciprocal

ago offered by Sir Henry Suttinger

and

refused

ace