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you will call this Lordship's attention

to the suggestion which has been made as to the

expediency of employing

boats built after the Chinese model

for the suppression of the apparently increasing wil

wil of piracy, which

cannot fail to be highly prejudicial

of Hong Kong. -

to the interests

Lord Aberdeen conceives that if

Lord

Stauley should concur in the

view taken

of this point byber

John Davis and Sir Thomas Cochrane,

instruction to be addressed

any instrue

to hi John Davis on the subject

should emanate from the Colonial

Department

defortment, as it affears that the

charges which

might

be incurred

in giving effect to their suggestion would fall upon the Colonial

Revenue.

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Jour most obedient

humble servant

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