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or plunder by the piratical Graft infecting the surrounding traters.

At the mouth of the Canton River meually crowded with fiching

and trading boats, not a native

Sail is to be

jecu.

The post boat between this

and Canton was

plundered on the

morning of the 255 Intant near

the

Boque

are not

Forts, and the Mail bags

recovered,

yet

un is

there

clue to the disemvery

at present any of the assailants -

Canton itself is still besieged by the incurgents, who have commenced to entrench themselves, and give out that

so somn as

the

J

standing Crop of Rice shall be gathered, large reinforcements will

them.

join

From Her Majesty's Consulate

at Canton I learn that there is a

possibility of the Captors of tochangpre

(the Capital of Hooper recently taken from the Auperialists) being a division

the Nanking Army Southward; should this rumour

of

M

their March

prove corect, the huperial Authorit in the whole Kwangtung Province is in danger.

In this Colony all rigilanei

is cxercised, and perfect quiet

prevails.

Captain Sir William Strate