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of the case, but to be further assurect,

I have profited by the opportunity of much visit here to confer with the Chief Fridge Sir Edmund Storby, in whose

correspondence"

hands I placed the whole cores,

and il am

authorized to sa

these viis I am

I am fully

sony fully bone

that

cret

his opinion

by

with

I may add that I quite agree the Attorney General at Hong Kong that assuming the correctness of the

facts connected with the voyage of the

"/

"J'ance Albert"

master of

as

detailed by the

The bejsel, there was

ve

case for confiscating the Ship - But

it

appears that the Chinese Authorities

spot-, did not assume this correctness,

but.

Dar

And if

the contrary gravely doubled it

20

proof

CALA S

forthcoming of the

Charter, if the Charterer hunself-

not brought forward, and

the nigual existence. and

//

21.0

1100

proof of

supposed lop

of the Sunk in search of which the

"Prince Albert" is stated to have been

sent; I coups I should have deemed

the Chinese Authorities very credulous

either

or otherwise utterly unfit for the effecent dischar

charge of their duties in

CONNEXION

with the care of the Revenue if they

had accepted the simple statencent

of the allaster, or her crew as trustworthy

and sufficient arcence. And I am

As

well

Ou

H. M. Consul on

the

spot

bound

abso

to say that I should

have