are
founded
on an
apprehension
of its peculiar unhealthiness-
the improbability of raising
a
local revenue
inutility
as
an
trade
and
its use as an entrepôt for
I shall endeavour to
show that this
statements were exaggerated and partial
and I
am
of opinion that Mr Martin wrote
under
a feeling of strong
prejudice, founded in
apprehensions for his personal health, regarding which he was remarkably sensitive,
and
has had
more
leave
of absence than any
individual
in
the Service
...
account he has had
of
the House Guards
individual
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in
the Service
Your Lordship will have
observed in that gentleman's paper that he suggests the
expediency of his being
provided for in
some other
Colony.
With reference to the
first point, that of imputed unhealthiness, I consider the Climate of Hongkong to be precisely that of Macao, from which it is
only 45 miles distant, and where
for many years I and numbers of others enjoyed
good
Health.
In its geological features it is identical with England. In its ...
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