result; let the Opium traders, and those who choose to respect whether have a voice in the management of the affairs of; is the more the Colony.
There can scarcely be less general trade, less prosperity, less security to life and property with a large foreign fleet in the harbour.
A 2.0 exists on shore, and any one advantage, Commercial, Financial, Religious, prospective, or present or desirable to England from the existing establishment at Hongkong there would be justification for the abuse being incurred and for the annual sacrifice for the great advantages of life; but when such advantages do not exist, and our occupation is our daily source of annoyance to the Chinese Government; the Commissioner having now refused to visit Hong Kong, it is worse than folly to persist in a course begun in error, and wreck of continued disappointments & eventually loss, and degradation to National
Memorandum by H. M. Martin 24 July 1844