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fa comtetent Kinère squadron will inske the kovemment & china I apame the protection of trave in that country, and so relieve her Snitminic Majestyp Government of a duty which has been imforest nhon the English Squadron for years. has intimated to me that he is strougly impresex with the exfediency of undertatting the enforcement of the Disarmament Proclamation with the means at his command, which will be re-enforced almost immediately by this quaborts from England, and thus relieving Her Majesty's quadron from a buty which affertains rather to the

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enfacement of a law than the direct suppresion of Piracy, and, therefore, more strictly within the obligations of the Imperial Government. The Face Pry has also requested me to forward

To be the encloses Deshatch and to

intimate his sense of the valuable assistance. Her Majesty' Squadron might have afforded, and to expres his firm intention to enforce the Proclamation in its entirely. –

I have Ac

(Signed) D. Dr. Robertion,

Consul.

(Fine Copy.)

(Signesh.) Alex Frater

Apistant.