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have been quartered there an

:veral Guns

already

in position. The Hercules

battery has been loved to

ク

unclurage tinsmanding,

the Casterne side of the Harbour.

Thre

partial excitement

and alarme induced an

the

ree

:dents by to be subsiding. appear to be su

recent events

Chinese headman

several districts on

of

The

the

this side

of the Island were disected to assemble the principal

tale payers of the Chinese meeting hall,

their districts at

having

hall, and

ment

done so the Grummans

Governm

J

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Interpreter by my direction

explained to them the nature of the defensive

mmcavares in

1 position of

progress and the

England and Pussia

the

کے

e present crisis .. They- expressed themselves quité satisfied with the explana

tion - 1

A proclamation in

Chinese

vva

afterwards

posted throughout the town

and Villages, and the English

in

Priginal was published. the next Satur

Saturday's Gazette

5.2 (in closure Ft 2 ) ow it contam

So

intimation that the

collection of

the ordinary police