soon after, and the undefined and unsettled state into which the relations between Great Britain and China were thrown by those Events, prevented, as I understood, his Majesty's Ministers from carrying my suggestion into effect.
As I am now informed that, in consequence of the recent treaty of Peace between China and Great Britain and of the cession of Hong Kong by the former to the latter fort, Her Majesty's Ministers are about
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to introduce into Parliament an Act for Establishing a British Court of Justice on that island, and for granting certain judicial and magisterial powers to the several British Consuls or Superintendents of trade, who are in future, to reside at the different Ports in China, and as it will be very desirable considering the numerous peculiarities of the Chinese people
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