Governments, which has been inculcated by the compinors Gider, and has marked the whole of the conduct and communications of the Superintending Commissioned, have
letter of the 10th Inst to the
(as I stated in my
Me
convenient
Joint address of the Admiral and yourself).
that there are no grounds whatsoever for distrusting
there the sincere with of the Government of China to preserve the Peace that has been happily established; and
Peace
Accordingly
I am now
decidedly of opinion that a much
has Joice will suffice for any purpose, should Your
Excellency
deem it proper to revise and alter the
arrangement which your
predecessor.
I have also
despatch to Lord Ellenborough
I am further of opinion that in a political
point of view, it is most desirable
not to be backward in
evincing
every
consideration
confidence
in the
good faith of our new ally, and therefore, I may say
that whatever Your Excellency may
decide when doing at this moment, I intend to recommend to Her Majesty's Government that the Land force shall be limited in future (whilst we retain Chusan
and
Kowloong) to something about the following
strength.
1000. At Hongkong, one thousand men of all arms
500. At Kowloong, five hundred men
of all arms.
100. At Canton, one hundred men
Of these I shall suggest, one half being, for the time, Europeans, and the other half natives.
I shall make known my willingness to be responsible for their being ample to carry out all the Provisions of the treaty
I observe what Your Excellency has taken
opinion regarding
the climate of the
Island of Hongkong, and as I have been in some degree the instrument of its becoming a possession of the Crown, and am also specially directed by my instructions to report on its capabilities &c., I am forced
to record
my
total dissent as to
climate, for, although it may be visited with the
diseases (chiefly
fever incidental to all
tropical climates) and
the insalubrity of its
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