CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4] — Page 331

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I had been their Plenipotentiary. The enclosed. Letter from the American Consul further proves this, and acknowledges the conclusion the benefits derived from my

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I continue to receive. accounts of the maintenance of quiet at fauton and of the return of the respectable. inhabitants to their usual recupations.

I have to.

(Signed) J. F. Davis .

(True (opy)

Mamie Colonial Secretary-

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To

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Dear Ser

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Canton, 7 + Morel, 187

As the British troops are about:

retiring from Canton, I beg you will allow me to offer a few suggestions growing out of my

own

experience during the last few Canton, and which have reference

6 years, at

reference more particularly to the idlers which congregate

about the factories and have been I may

say

use of the various disturbances

in all cases the cause

and conflicts which have taken place from

time to time.

During the last few hours I have observed many of the kind of people referred to already, coming down in front of the factories and I therefore judge that as soon as the troops have embarked they will &

His Excellency,

Sir John & Davis,

Je

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te!

will come in

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