may lake place
rise that may,
promptly of any in the other markets.
When cases as
those alluded to
sub 1 should happen in future, I will endeavour to obtain for the parties the same facilities as granted at Shanghai. I must leave it, however, to Your Enct lency's better judgement to decide whether it would not be good policy to do it as quietty as possible, best such a measure might prove injurious to the interests
Warchouses at Honghong,
of the owners of
who pay a heavy ground rent, and whose "godowns would be less resorted to, (especially by such British and
wuffer
merchants as have no establishment
d foreign
there), if the
means Lavere
afforded them
of storing their goods here rent fice, with the certainty of getting back the exporting them to foreign
duties on re
places.
I have, 40,
434
(Signed). Francis C. Macgregor
lopy).