CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 243

This evil is

very

inveterate,

and it is diffient to suggest. effective remedy, which would

du

put

d

nore t

stops to it; and the

as the Chinese Govern = - ment will not avail itself of

ce = operation. Coould onc believe the sufferers when they pointed out their Assailants,. discover with sufficient proof for conviction their berunts, the

matter would be

very lovey;

long before howwer any fire.

Com

arrive, they

are

there are so many

and

gone, an harbours

and hiding places for there

Robbers, that it would requires

unch

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much local knowledge, and

good information to apprehend_ them. But as the Chinese Govern = -ment, on account of possessing

better means

for obtaming

know

-ledge of the perpetrators is perfectly competent to bring them to condign funishment, the constant recurrence. of hirney, if duly reported to the Supreme Government, and the most urgent and often reiterated requests to put these nefarious wr down, with a ligh hand, might. it from its slumbers and indeffroux. Some Vessels of

ours

retches

fitted out in the Chinese

way

rouse