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and I have to humbly (beg you to give me) your

Military Assistance, I

feel uneasy

what I would wish

uneasy in mind, for I go beyond country with His Excellency Mr.

been most intimate hence the

words.

Minu

my Robertson

and

your

Honour have always

explicitness

of my

As

regards the case

of the

banditti in Un-long

and

the several

we must

punish

surrounding Villages

the Civil and Military offices there,

and attend to the case without

any trifling; continually, too, we must search

and

and

apprehend the pirates. The Civil Military Authorities in San-on

that they

with those of my place say most certainly have urgently ordered

these Villages to deliver up the vagabonds,

how can

they again

dare to trouble

your

Officers

officers and soldiers to

do

our business to again

what business they dare to request

depute

an

there? and yet how can

officer to manage the matter? they ought to request him to transfer

him to transfer a body of troops there, and how can I dare to ask

him not to do so, because the matter is a

petty one? of what use are the Civil and Military Authorities of that place. They themselves ought with all their might establish

the matter, and so

some laws, and manage

give peace to the merchants, so that

then

might gradually return and fear not This is sent in addition, for you

to see