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in

Pirates there and, the neighboring

waiters. öbe

now receives a

triplicate

myself and the Commodore. Two

former have exhibited a

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willing alacrity

in proportion to their means to assist

Gunboats, and frequently to act independently of them.

of

the

report of

each

case sent to

the operations of

our

gunboato

mareiver

have

recently

been

built

the Chinese Government, and

one of them has this

day gone

out

fom the homber, accompanied by bolonel:

Sung Yuh's

war

junk, in pursuit of

some Pirates who had made a

of which I

had myself.

details,

a

Capture, I

received no

very unusual circumstance.

Therefore, although it may

be true that

many of these arrangements have

<t

on the

resulted from the prepure punt Chinese authorities, afsisted by bonaul Robertson, it is

equally time that the

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26. Having

more

now adverted to the subjecto

immediately connected with the

Colony,

duties

to whose administration my official

are limited. I abstain from

commenting

om

the other

mumerous

the

suggestions of with the

of Foreigners

general

-

Mernarial in connection

trade and interests

in the details connected

therewith. I have already transmitted.

to Sir Rutherford Abruck

copy of the Memorial and of my Despatch to Your

Space Nr 388 of the 34th October founending it. I have also recommended it to his