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Lieutenant Governor of Kwangtung.

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the following

answer.

We just received a letter from You the Honorable Envoy, in which you complain about the insult and injury

done by the natives to the

and and request

vice - Consul and two English Officers, that these villains should be severely punished

according to the Chinese Laws.

This case has already been represented

by Consul Macgregor,

and

Governor immediately forme

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directions to the bustrict

Military to despatch the most able Goldiers for -

sevzing ( those ruffians) and recovering

plunder,

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reported,

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and to punish them most severely as they were

apprehended - The soldiers then that they had already seized one villain

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