CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 479

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of the 28th Jebruary 1857% and I proceed at once to avail myself of the opportunity kindly afforded by you receive from me a further c statement which Thope may prove satisfactory to you.

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: In the first place it will be remembered that the month of February in this spar (the period at which the occurrence. in question took hlase was a time when this Colony generally supposed to be in 'imminent peril from the number of dangerous characters

was

who were as emissaries

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from the

Chinese Authorities acting expon

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our native population, we had

reason to apprehend nightly

attempts at incendiarism, the

Blice forces, was worked to the utmost extent of in caperitif, and our military means were very small . It was found necessary to make constant arrests on suspicion and our

a

jail, which is only calculated

to contain 180 prisoners,

crowdedeven without the addition of the 7/3 men in question . The iSheriff's return

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