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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JULY, 1881.
loyalty, and all the other measures of his effective
government, are too numerous to count up.
There is none among us. Chinese who does not reverently look up to him as one of the bright
spirits; there is none who does not love him as one loves one's parents. The last four years
have passed as if they had been but a day.
Now venturing to advert briefly to a few of his measures, there is the grant of a public place
for the interment of deserted human remains, and
the donation he made, from his private purse, of
over one thousand one hundred dollars, in per-
manent commemoration whereof a tablet has
been placed by us in the mausoleum built by
him.
Thus goodness experienced by the living,
has extended its influence also to the bones of the
dead.
All that live and breathe join in one
voice in expressing their obligations for this act.
The Tung-wá Hospital had an office for vac-
cination, but patients stricken with small-pox and
seeking to be cured had no secluded ward to be
received in; wherefore he expressly granted a
piece of ground for this special purpose, which
was an act of merciful consideration for infants and highly meritorious protection of youthful lives.
His Excellency is designated by us as the merciful prince, and lauded by all far and near as such.
The practice of kidnapping was extremely extensive, and victims once fallen into the trap were engulfed in an ocean of misery. But our
Governor, prompted by sympathy and commis- eration for those victims, established the So- ciety for the Protection of Women and Children, to extend to them a saving hand, and thus his kindness is exhibited to the destitute and forlorn and his favour is shown to the women and children.
The tablet of His Excellency's fame is exhib- ited in the streets, and multitudes proclaim it with one voice.
The Chinese inhabitants of Hongkong who reside here, trusting to the protection of his government, number not far below two hundred thousand, and yet they have no meeting hall to promote the extension of their commerce, but His Excellency expressly moved Her Majesty's Gov- ernment to give them a piece of ground and a grant for the purpose of the proposed building, which act of protection and pacification is a matter of justice, prompted by a desire to tran- quillize the people, to include all in one view of humane kindness, and to allow no distinctions of race or nationality.
The foregoing statement, explicit as it is, falls yet short of recounting one thousandth part of His Excellency the Governor's deep humanity and powerful liberality. Moreover, in these four years, whatever there was of advantage was sure to be promoted by him to its minute detail. Our Chinese people, who have been drinking- in his gentleness and feeding on his goodness, have silently experienced his educating influence beyond measure, and tranquilly enjoyed the shadow of his protection above all limit.
做不至我華民之飲和而食德者默受 裁成於罔外隱
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仁無區畛域凡此數陳於 督憲之深仁厚澤實難盡其萬一况此四年中