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 then serving on board, with their equivocating and unsatisfactory answers.

But the direct, frank, and unequivocal written confession, drawn up subsequently by the Chief Magistrate, from the mouth of one of her engineers, not examined before the Commission, will, no doubt, receive in Downing Street and Parliament all that attention, which, even to the extent of an acknowledgement of its reception from the Magistracy, has been—so I am informed by the Chief Magistrate himself—hitherto denied to it, on the part of Sir John Bowring's Government.

As if these connections with the head of Chinese pirates were not sufficient for Mr. Caldwell's purpose, whatever that purpose may have been, we next find him contracting, according to Chinese law and usage, a marriage with his concubine Ayow, a singing girl from a Chinese brothel, and the reputed sister, by adoption, (or "sworn sister") of another Chinese girl, Shap Lok, inmate and keeper of a brothel at Hong Kong; and who,—such is one of the reluctant findings of the Caldwell Commission, —in the year