Enlistment feet to sanction the exaction of bonds of this nature; and he acquiseed in ling opinion that a row departure of this kind ought not to be made, especially in the present critical state of public affairs, without a previous reference to the Secretary of State.
4.
On consulting Admiral Sir 15 Dowell, I found that able and Experienced officer
to be
rongly opposed to the Exaction of bouds as suggested by the Attorney General, and that he emphatically agree with me
in the following objections (among others
that I might be mentioned ) to the adoption
of
a hovel policy of that nature:
(1.) Because an innovation of this kind, while it would probably have the effect
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of irritating the French into muschievous interference witto English trade in various
ways,
would be utterly futile in its mimediate results; for kelung has several recouths in the possession of French; and it can make little realm.
beewfor
the
difference to them, whether the coal is landed in a towow held by their Forces, and afterwards put on board the French
ཅ་
of-war in the harbour by the Agent
of M. Marty, or whether it is put on board those men-of-war in the first instance from the steamer Chartered by In. Marty. (2.) Because there is no English Consul, or other independent or reliable
authority in kelung who could certify the Government of Hong Kong whether the
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