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of my

usual tulies, and Secondly because

I feel that I must be taking a very different View of the merits of the question from that apparently adopted by a Gentleman for whose experience and intelligent discharge of his duties I entertain very great respect - I mean Consul Robertson.

3.

Hee evidently has

the forfeiture of the reefsel

-

acqinisced and has

in

in his power

prevented the petitions so far as lay in his com exercising the privilege of appeal.. Nevertheless having had the advantage of personally conferring with the Consul I cannot find that in this case there was the slightest importation raised as to the "bona fides" of all the transactions in which

the Prince Albert was

ed in her recent

engaged

Any age

to Shnei Jung-

Nor were

any of

the statements of the Master or charterers of the Steamer called in question.

H..

I can

-can only gather that the Owne "Mwok_a. Cheong is supposed on former

occasions to have traded with Ports closed to

Foreign repels - but no attempt has been made to connect either the repel or any

party interested in her with illegal trading

during her last

5.

did not

voyages.

I therefore rent that Coment Reboten.

oso his

intu pose

good offices at an early stage of the proceedings to have proured the substitution of a fine for total forfeiture -

for a

as a more suitable penalty

an accidentat infringement of the

Treativ. I regret it the more because the

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