The Imperial Covencess's
Taoukwang. Sept. 27. 1843
Sir Henry Pottinger.
29 109
Extract of a Letter from the Imperial Coming
Commissioners
and Viceroy to Sir Henry Pottinger, dated
September.
"
In
13. 1842.
your Excellency's Reply [under the 8t head ] is the following Sentence, "there " are a few hundreds of mere People, cas
: residing at present on the Island of Hong
" kong, and should they determine to remain there, now that that Island is
become - ceded to England, they will of course
" subject to whatever Laws and Regulations
- may be framed for the management
"of
that Settlement to
вс
"
We find that Chinese People being restrained by Chinese mandarins, and
English