CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 35

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10.

It Seems

therfor singular that he should not have had a

Seal within reach, even Supposing him to have been at the City of Sanson, where the letters seized last week shen

hiver to pass much of his time as chief of the Committer of Anti-barbarian hostilities. It is also remarkable that the

letter is dated the 10th April, namely four days after the destruction of his Junk fleet by Commodac Elliott. He is reported to have collected this

with some difficulty

And to

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be now much embarrassed

by applications from the

owners

пицар

the vessels destroyed

to replace them ; yet he here

Embargo

Offers to lay an o

Embe

on

junkers to support his assassins in the undertaking projected.

reward offered is

Lastly, the

unusually and almost incredib, large. The letter is

The heller is written by

some one sufficiently accustomed to the use of

of the

but at the same time, so

pen, but at the partially

educated as to

mis employ Several charackrs.

misemploy

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