Chin
Pirms and especially of Chew Merchants. Up to the present
: moment
Q
Man
possessing
considerable property has
ventured to
engage
in the
Hongkong Trade, or to establish
houde
the Island. B
the repeated questions put to
men of substance, whys they
ded not
under
ov
carry
on their bushies
verment
free governm
with full protation of thing
property, th
the answer
has always
been,
that it was more advan=
:-tagions at Canton,
large cities, and e
Andwer
othe
ould not
at Hong Kong. We
must
214
Some
must certamely make
the Colony being for.
allo
still
but
wankl
in
a state of infang, the living
to the
in the
same Settlement with the large English Houses, and the having
nothing to fear from the raffacity of the Mandarins ought to be indusement for large
a great
Chinese Merchants to come
and reside at Viatèria. After all the endeavours to fix t Colony
A
Chiv Chew Merchants
in our Possessions,
are the Soul of the
whi
of the whole Com : in the Indian Archipe=
matters remain as
lage, matters
they
iner