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day of June last, on the night of which

day

about nine o'clock the Steam vesel

"Corsair" came rapidly up the river from: foul of Your Petitioner's

Whampoa and ran

Junk thereby making a large hole in her side which caused her to fill with water-

Your Petitioner tried hard to save her -- but could not - and she soon after sunk- At the time Your Petitioner told the Captain of the Steamer that with his boat he lost every thing.

That Your Petitioner's Sunk at the

time this collision occurred was anchored

by the stem and stern according

to rQual

custom and was in that part of the

river where all salt boats

anchor :

and that there was

usually

• plenty of

room

for...

the Steamer to have passed at the other side of the river from his boat.. where the

Steamer always passed before- and not- the Sunks that had their

among

come

anchors down, and therefore could not get out of the steam vessel's way

Your Petitioner saith the loss he has sustained thereby is one thousand. and eight hundred dollars, that his ___ friends and neighbours assisted him to -- raise the Junk, but she is so much

Petitioner has no means

injured your

repairing,

or even

of raising her.

of

e of repaying the expenses

That on the eighth day of July

last he presented

a Petition to the Consul

of your Country at Canton praying for... Justice, a copy of which Petition tränolated by the English Interpreter is annexed hereto, that the Consul caused the matter to be

examined into- and letters written to the

English Officers belonging to H. The Steamer "Pluto" then lying off the British Factories at Canton

the truth of his.

inquiring Petition - As these, officers

wvere on

board