The
Mr. Martin
following first
contradiction
states "There
is remar
is not a
table.
" respectable Chinese in the Island, and never
" has been "- After this,
being asked
if
one could
office of
"There
"
... get "respectable Chinese to take the
"Headmen in the Villages, he answers
"are shopkeepers and inhabitants of that
Houghtong to whom I would entrust
"kind in
"the pover.... "petty bench". The truth is, that many of the respectable inhabitants are employed in the control of their countrymen... Enough- perhaps, has been produced to place this
category
I would constitute them a
evidence in the same.
with what
the Edinburgh Review has called "the "precious statistics of Mr. Montgomery Martin The other extraordinary evidence is that of Mr. 4. Matheson. He says "Before
left China in 1846 I had
consultation with
a serious
my partners
as to the
"expediency of abandoning this property (their
"
Buildings) to its fate, and
our establishments from the Colony;
" and we decided that
as
I was
coming
home.
"it would be better to wait and see what
"could be done with the Home Government.
"for the amelioration of the place; of
"nothing could
be done,
"then abandon it."-
that we
would
While
uttering
this, Mr. Matheson
were
them
must have known the firm.
"1
creating the most expensive dwelling house.
in the whole Colony, estimated to have cost 50,000 Dollars; and they have since built. round the outer boundary of
their
extensive premises a solid stone wall, with handsome stone gateways.
I shall be
very
such substantial
glad to see many more indications of the abandonment and ruin of Houghtong, where Jardine. Matheson the still continue to go on in the old
way!
though nothing whatever has become