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Governor of Hongthing to App's Lordship The Hordtary of Hate for the Colonies complaining of the lavity of the Chinese officials not enforcing at kanton, and

the harbors of the Two Thwung

Regulation prohibiting

the

Merchant Vunks

from carrying me to bring the whole groution before

Plink pots, and directing

the lice Roy and to stale to hein that

necessary.

if he persists in net taking the mopory precautions for the supervision of vessels frequenting the test of his Ristrict, the Governor of Hougthing

cannot be

expacted to act alone und unsupported.

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reply

I have to state that

much has been said and written

the subject of the Disarmament

of Chinese Iunks and the prohibition to

Carry

The

missiles called Henk pols, that

brief resume

of the facts and

these questions

circumstances attending

may

not be out of place, and will

help, perhaps to place them in a more intelligible form than a perval of the mass of correspondence will afford.

The Scheme for the disarmament

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This part

part of the

of Punks trading koast of lehina originated with Alsiorat the Honorable for Henry Hoppel. Early

in his command he had mentioned

the subject to me. The found all

-going

Sta

and

Dunks were

horwvily armed.

was under the common

but

cimpression They

We