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desire to impose on Mr, Bouhatu, evea could he liaTo 

 performed it, the responsibility of my own disagreeable 

 duty ; and secondly, because lie could not liave performed 

 it : liG could only have resorted to tardy diplomatic 

 correspondence at a distance of forty milcus, and then, m 

 case of failure, back to myself or to the military power at 

 Hong Kong, 



In the meantime tlie utmost conceivable punishment 

 for the " double scandal," would have been already 

 undergone by Mr, Summers. Tliere exists a note Tvritten 

 by a predecessor of Seiior Amaral, wldch lie would 

 pi'obiibly have made his model in replying to any 

 communication on this subject from Hong KoBg, 



On the occasion to which this note refers, the Consular 

 Agent for the United States expressed Jiis regret at 

 the arrest and imprisonment of two Americaii citizens 

 by order of his Excellency, the then Governor of Macao : " 

 thcu^ offence seems to have been of the nature of 

 Mr. Summers's, In reply, his Excellency the Governor 

 Pallia winds up a severe note by saying that it is " by 

 an excess of moderation, but only for this time, that he 

 has not dctormiuod instantly that Mr. Fisher should quit 

 the city, for bavin tJto aiidacity to pretend that tho 

 Governor should account to him for tlio rules of his 

 conduct,*' This peculiar style of the Governors of Macao 

 docs not encourage a reference to civil authorities wlien 

 injustice is patent — when delay aggravates it — iind wlicn 

 a man-of-war is at hand- 



