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to the general commercial prosperity of

this place,

ао

being auxiliary to the efforts of foreign merchants to extend the bale

of British Manufactures. It is therefore

dvious that

supotem

such

ncement of

as

I have

sanction of

It

was

impossible that, as Governor of the bolony, I could permit such an

unjustifiable blockade of this harbor in

Peace

time of

under

any

circumstances,

and accordingly Your Grace will purceive

Vide bolonial that I drew the attention

Secretory to Consul th November 1867 to

1867 to the

the sule

subject and impresed

of bonoul Robertion

in the

strongest

on him the

wanner-

expediency of

requiring restitution of a punt sized

described, and the commencement

which had been actually inaugurated

by force without the slightest legal

International

Special Treaty, might

time have operated

short

usage,

ar

in, a

very estoppel to

for so insufficient

a reason, and so close

{

to

our shores. The banoul's

reply of

OUR

a

all direct bhinese intercourse with this

Colony,

Iblow

inflicted a serious

and have inflicted

on the Commercial interests centred

here by the advantages of British Rule,

and the admirable convenience of the harbor.

the 9th instant shews that he had at

once

appreciated the gravity of the

circunstâncies and had

that

امی

recommended.

my requisition for restoration of the captured funk should be set with. I therefore apprehend little immediate

complied