the responsibility of
the Naval & Military Authorities
issuing
orders
A
fault in tactical
hostilities have been com-
menced has been devolved.
14.38 B. Amphion Atheneum, London.
Rec. Dec. 22
/43!
21 Dec 1843
274
My Lord,
Of the
various data with
which I have been furnished by your
Lordship's directions,
from the Colonial Office, I find but one that is available, (and that one is eminently so) to the task I have undertaken, that of furn-
ishing suggestions with reference to the civil Colonial establishment of Hong Kong, as well as to the most eligible means, under the circum-
stances,
of providing
a revenue to meet the
charges of that Establishment.
The Old British factory
under the East India Company at Canton
— a
Commercial Establishment
precisely analogous to the early state of the Indian Presidencies, before the
Company had as-
yet acquired a foot of territory; and it was paid by Commission
on
the whole "British
trade - It therefore will not apply safely to Hong Kong.
The Chief Superintendents
establishment, which followed it was
of a Consular nature, and its charges
were defrayed by
bills
on
H.M. Treasury.
The imperfect & impracticable state