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Northern States, and as these seas are at so

great

a distance

from American territory

I do not anticipate difficulty either from Northern Letters of Marque or Southern

privateers.

has only

The United States' Government

one

Ship of War in these waters

the Wyoming recently arrived, and. I

believe now on

Japan..

might

her way to the ports of

I was privately asked if she

Come into and remain in this-

Harbor, but on

Circular

of

16th

reference to Your Grace's

was

January 1862,

it

found that she must be called on to leave

in 24 hours. Under these circumstances,

but-went-

she did not visit Hongkong but went

from Manila where she then was to the-

Portuguese settlement of Mbacar, whence as

I have said, she has now

of

North. gone Southern men of war. Privateers,

or Merchantmen there

Chirin seas- nor

property

am

are none in the

aw are

of any

held in this part of the world by

Citizens of the Confederate States.

I have the honor to be

May Lord Duke, Your Grace's

Abot Obedient Servants,

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