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: operate with Mr Peddar, Vice Consul at that Port; and to report

to me

regarding

the

Steps

which he

would advise to be taken for the pontation

of the Settlement, as also

the stale

of feeling of the Chinese Inbintitants

of that beatity.

The

only European Force at,

at present

stationed here is the right Wing of the

75th Regiments, and a half Battery

of Royal Artillery

Iwoed

bey to

suggest that the left Wing of the 775th Regiment be ordered to Hony Kony, from Singapore, and that the half Buttery of Royal Artillion now sowing

here be

augmented by the acctition

another Buttery.-

The present

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Native Force af

Itony Kony consists of the 29th Madras

Native Infantry, (about 800 strony)

only armed with muzzle loaders,

but.

and one

Company of Gun Lasears.

I may

the whole

add, in conclusion, that

I the Forces of r of the

the Chinese

are now armed with

and I am also

Government breech loading rifles,

informed that

of some

they

they are in possession.

eMitraillenses.-

I shall do myself the honor of

reauth

reporting, by the carbest opportunity, the of Colonel De Batts Mission, what further steps

as well as

muy

take in the matter. -

I have &C.

(signed) It. W. What feild.

Major General,

Commanding Troops, China & Japan.

Native