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courrizing the most resectable part of our population have taken "flight_ almost all our Servants have abandoned us and half the

are shut

Thons in the Colon

The proxibitions and punishments which have prevented the ordinary supply of the Commodities for rnity consumption have like to

an enormous rise of prices and

" insufficient provision for public wants.

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the

have

Fese hostile measures not only been directed towards Honghong but towards the neighbouring Settlement of Macas, where they have been carried out

ا مهر

20 مار

with

even

greater severity and

consequent suffering-

معلماک

on the

evening of the 29th Ultimus, I received a communication,

of which I have the hour to enclose copy, signed by almost all the leading inhabitants of the Colony.

I ummoned the Executive

Council early

the next morning.

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requesting the presence of the Senin Naval and Military Authorities and I laid on the table a Purclamation which met the unanimous assroval of all present. - Peneloc Copy of that Proclamation.

I forwarded to the Gentlemen who had addressed me a rerly

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