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gunboats for that special service, or if unable to equip them at once, could the cast of the wear and objust li defray the cast of the

to

tear and maintenance of that number of first clap gemboats like the Plover to le

added to the present British Noval Pored.

80 new, and writ 80 herse

each

ranging

pover. All the gumboots now empe

employed

deficient in opeed, paver and mumber

au de

of orow?

14.

The whole

would £90,000 per canpared with what China

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attacks by Pirates harbored on Chinese Serritory. I might add that the

expenditure would be trifling

ao

ت

impond with the increased; wealth. and expansion of commuce resulting remmuce-resulting

from the increased security afforded to

honest häden

15.

The

umaining six gunboats

might be fand by Her Majesty's

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د

Gomment and the Nations more immediately interested in the semmity

нормой

e would not

annum, a new

trifle

of

16.

Empire,

and

the

peaceable traders of her own

ower to the

those of other Nations, whose commered

has been interrupted, and whose property how for a series

of agian bean liable to

Commerce in stree seas.

It is quite clear that at present

AVAL MANP

adopted

are

insufficient te

deter numbers from engaging in Piratical. pursuits in preference to more legitimate occupations, and it is equally clear that

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