CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 273

the

City of Cantor is threatened by a considerable force-s. extensively has the janie

st the

spread amongst

portion of

Uspectable the inhabitants of

Canton that-

ave

my information

to believe that two

leade

Weirds

the of

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and

children have quitted the

&place, chiefly for

and Alacar-

this island

The River

Steamers have been in constant

demand at exorbitant price, and it is calculated that during the past sodays not less them 3000 hersons have been brought here by them. These fugitives

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principally

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gare

represented to be of the higher class of Commercial

The

reasons

for

Society.

assigned for the

flight of all these people

is

the distrust with which,

though only quite recently,

they have learnt to tegard

Servants, for

their own

through the Coetic plass the

Frind Society prevails strongly.

The Piracies

neighboring

abated - The

the

waters continue

accompanying

ps & correspondence will better

sas la

than

any explain to

vents

to of

mine

to your grace the