paid in many of the Cities and Towns
Great Britain.
In conclusion, your Memorialists
beg the attention of your Lordship to the questionable policy of entailing upon the few who
make Hongkong their residence the burden of maintaining
a Government whose chief duty is
the protection and controul of the traffic of the people of two great Empires, and by which the Revenues of Great Britain and her Indian Possessions
are
materially augmented.
stating
their
strong conviction of the
justice of their cause, your
Memorialists entrust-
it with confidence to the hands of your Lordship,
on its favorable consideration
and relying
by
Her Majesty's Government,
Memorialists, as
your
in duty bound, will ever pray :
Victoria,
Hongkong, 19th February 1848.
Jardine Matheson
W. Turner
J. Macandrew:
A. P. Barlow.
W. Dent
J. Lindsay
J. D. Braine
Sam'l. F. Irvine
then
by his Attorney