Hongkong ere many months clapse
may
mere
have dwindled down into
Ви
ere Military poet . Viewed in this light, the fact of even the smallest mercantile firm being obliged to leave the place, may perhaps be found, not altigether unworthy the notice of Sevm.
ment ..
We came here from Macae
about six months.
age expecting the
following advantages to result front
Over
Tomegal.
pot As be
Ine
more com
being
more convenient.
for
correspondence with India and Europe, as well as with our Shanghae branch.
God As afferding
secure and.
Convenient Warehouse for such goods as we might not wish to
Send at once to Canton or
the
the North, and
330
should find as much
3. that we
business doing
here
at Macao,
sufficient at least to justify
Keeping up a separate establishment
outside.
In all these respects we regret
to say HongKong has disappointed us. The monthly Steamers to beylon conveying they do with the greatest regularity,
as
Straits Indian & European Correspondence,
to write by any
it is now seldom
other
conveyance,
necessary
so that such correspondence
Ou
can be conducted quite well at Cantore ; and the trade of Shanghae having
become
LE
direct
one we
e
PAOLO J
find we have
merely to Rective and poet the Shanghae
letters, and forward on such as reach
that place from the south: this
& for
of course
cor.
be done as well be
by
Agent