be
- requisite . There is at present a small- American steamer constructed on the high pressure principle working daily with great success between Whampoa and
Canton.
(Signed) J. C. Hotrason.
(Ruefopy),
Macie Colonial Secretary
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In consequence of the almost daily
reports of piracies occurring) in
in these waters, I
am induced to address this communication
to you
with a view to my obtaining your
opinion as to the best modo of suppressing an
evil which has now assumed so
to grave a shape as to threaten the trade of this Colony, indepens-
ently of the daily loss of life, which the _ Colonial Police Reports bring to my notice .
The Gunb
-boat stationed here in the
month of February 1832, does not from rapecciones. appear to be at all adapted for giving chase to Pirate boats, or sufficiently effective to deter the attacks of Pirates against trading Junks and even Roat's conveying passengers, close to the harbours of Hongkong ; but, as this is a point
Captain Sir William Hoste, Bart, R. N. Senior Naval Officer.
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