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The Old British factory (British under the East India Company Kestory) at Canton was a Commercial Establishment, precisely analogous to the state of the Indian Presidencies, before they Company yet droguird ce foot of territory, and it was paid by a Commission on the whole British trade.
It therefore will not apply to Hong ty.
The Ching Superintendent's establishment, which followed it, was of a Consular ucture, and it's charges defrayed by Bills on Her Majesty's Treasury.
The imperfect and impracticable state in which its fruections were left by the late Goverennout, both in relation to the Chinese, and to British Subjects, brought despair in 1835, and proved the great cause of the War four years later, while things were growing worse.
Macao - The Portuguese prude Colony of Macao (I know from long acquamitance with it) is rather a beacon to shun, than an example to follow. In fact it is vita portuguese Colony, under the Chinese dre