531
London 25th July 1846
To Benjamin Hawes Jun: Exgre. M. P.
te
de
te
Colonial Office, Downing Streets
Agreeably to the kind permission granted
me in the interview you.
favoured me
with
on the 23. init I have the honour to submit
Memoranda, relating
the following
British
Colony Hong Kong :
ار ساری
động trong
The Opium Farmi
exclusive right to sell Opium
in quantities less than one in 1845, for This tax
C
Gy
to the
The
the Island
Chest ) was sold
of B2350...
one year, for the sum it is understood, was instituted in imitation of a similar one which had proved
productive at Singapore, but without taking into consideration the very different position of
the tivo settlements :
Singapore is
а
which
large imporium surrounded by a populous country, from of Opium radiate as it were,
than which there is
no
a centre
supplies from a other source of supply.
Fong Kong may be also considered as a centre but from which supplies can
only radiate if she can sell the prepared drug more cheaply than it can be procured at Macao, Cumsingmoon,
-moon, or the adjacent Istands : her only advantage is that the crude material openly, which seems can be prepared for
use
to be doo the case all over China at present