CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 33

2.

and City, awing to the large. population which

sverged

them and other

Causes,

between

I have been

fully alive to the importance of keeping His Excellenny

l with

rapport

en

matters of any Consequence, occurring here. The time for this having, in my opinion, arrived, Thave the honor to enclose Copies of a Letter Ireceived yesterday from some of the principal British Merchants, and my reply, for the information of His Excellency,

I confes I do not share

in the alarm expressed in this Communication, for

I have seen

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and can learn nothing definite

regarding the rumours which have influenced the writers to address

That there is a strong and inimical feeling against Missionaries

and their labours there can be no

doubt; indeed it was evidenced Cotely by the destruction of a newly erected Chapel at Fatshon, a Town some fiftien

tion miles distant from

Canton, but that it extends to.. the Mercantile Community, I do - not believe. My own impression. is, that in a vast population like that here, there is

e

necessarily rowdy element ready for any

mischief, and it is with that these