most largely engaged in these nefarious pursuits.
1
Itransmitted
on
Th
the 16th May 1866 to Gourmer to
Piratical
Sir Rutherford Alcock. tables furnished by Admial King of the Number of Craft destroyed and Pirates Captured for a series of years by British bruisers, shuning that the main burthen of defending Chinese
as well as
Seas was
Foreign
Commerce on
those
bame by the British Goverment and suggesting that the Chinese Government should apist by contributing to the so maintenance of Several Gunboats, and by completing a system of Registration of Vefsels entering and leaving their ports-
and more
expecially by agreeing to a
measure for disarmament of all
repels
Bir R. Alsocke No 323.16th
May 1866.
A
not exprefly licensed by the Chinese
Government for special
reasons.
341
bulbouse 1 8. I inclose (in orginal) Sin Rutherford
Encloame
No2.
Alcocho
reply (29th August 1866.) in which he
arques against the proposed disarmament.
от
the
always
ground that the Pirates would be the last to be reached by
such a process.
9. At the
same
time
Jurate at
great length to bonsul Robution at
the necefpity for similar
banton ringing
measures,
and I,
now
inclose, in original
Coreclosing the reply of the bonsul, who represented
Consul Robutson
to
Hoon: M. 3. Mercer
2 que May 1866.
The Case
very fully to the Vice Ray but
whilst the butter
was inclined to think!
a case had been made out for the bhinese Authorities apisting in suppresion
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