CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 81

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of Butch, the ship should have bein hunt and all on brand murderede.

5.

This circumstance created

some little alarm in the Colony. It shewed that a Fleet of 19 heavily armed piratien vessels were in the neighbourhood, the monsoon being fair for Aonghong, and we were in a few hours to be unprotected by a single British Ship of War and without Colonial Vessel larger than a commo

Arit for

for our defence.

arry

4. Santly before the Admiral lift

Ireceived the

accompanying

letter from

M. Bridges the beting attorning General

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written

AJ

Capacity but

he said not in an

as a Justice of the Pines

and member of the Community whose

life and properts

were in common with

Pris I

those of otters in danger. This ! cucired 18446. to Sir Han Bouring in a letter forming incloure 14 of this Aspatel, representing

thị ra toil

of our insecurity._

5. Luling that much reponectincti

Feeling

devrived

expon

лис и

under these

circumstances, a formidable Pussian

Flut bein

as was well known in there

Seas, and

कु

while

a

all we knew, and as indeed

was very probable close

to us,

large piratical force desú incensed against those through whore instrumenting