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vessel would not creech £100 per mouth, I beg most respectfully to draw the attention of your Grace to the momentous subject now submitted

4.

I enclose a List of Piracies reported to the Police office since Sir George Bonham's despatch of the

24th April, 1849; at the same time,

I have to remark that numbers

Piracies are

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perpetrated without the

British Authorities ever even

of

them. I also attach

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I ales attach copy of a

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list of Piracies within the last 1.2.

of

15 months, as communicated

by the Cowloong authorities to

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the Chief Magistrate here, with",

view to the detection of some of

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the

implicated parties, if on this deland

5. These Returns will charly

demonstrate to

your

Gance the

line

5.

prevails;

cxtent to which Piracy and, were further cridence needed, the annexed report, by commander Fishbourne, of the desperate ricistanec Offered to Her Majesty's Steam Hoop "Hermes" under his command, by some Piratical cunks which had

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on the 3 of March attemptuh to capture the "Nymph", a well arved Schooner belonging to Meu Dont HG. of this Port,

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