The Right Honourable The Earl Shey,
Secretary of State for H.M. Colonies.
The Memorial of the British and other Inhabitants of Slingsheng, And its Vicinity.
Humbly Sheweth,
That
your Memorialists are deeply interested in the welfare of this Colony, either as owning or renting property in it?
Your Memorialists deem it unnecessary to obtrude upon your Lordship a detailed statement of the unsatisfactory position of this Colony, the subject having been so recently brought to the notice of H.M. Ministers in the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on British Commercial relations with China: but
Memorialists respectfully submit to your Lordship, that since the establishment of the settlement, the unusually heavy Ground-rent has been felt a severe burden upon themselves individually, and a serious...
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