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from myself upon Opium, nor indeed of any kind whatsoever.
answer
There is
any
is another assertion, that in my Despatches to Her Majesty's Government,
compared Hongkong, to Carthage
to Carthage and Rome; but if I cannot at once be acquitted of such
this, the records of the Foreign Colonial Offices will both prove that not
nonsense as
and
a
ov
syllable has ever been mentioned of Rome
Carthage, any more than of Babylon o
Jericho
Sir John
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Mr. Martin very much regrets
in the face the
or
that
directly look
Davis did not more
- very great difficulties he had to contend with (at Hongkong) instead of endeavouring by a system of taration and legislation to raise up the place to what was expected." It
as
satisfaction to me that
I did look in the face these great difficulties,
instead of giving the thing up in despair,
I have raised the
and that in four years
was eri
expected,
place to much more than
the Revenue to £81,078, diminishing
increasing
the Expenditure (including Civil Works) to £50,959, advancing the population to 23,872,
Chinese Junks
and augmenting the Tonnage to 289,165, exclusive of
From being a reputed pest-house, Hongkong has become a healthy Colony; the Police is perfectly
effective; many of the Chinese inhabitants most respectable:
good road of 24 miles now
and a
completely surrounds the island, much of it cut through granite rocks. I leave these palpable indications and elements of prosperity, far
those of
surpassing
Singapore at the
same
period from it's commencement, to confute Mr. Martin's hasty opinions committed to paper in 1844, a few weeks after his arrival.
The following contradiction remarkable - Mr Martin first states, "There is
not a respectable Chinese in the Island, and
never has been . "
After this, being asked if one
"office could get 'respectable Chinese' to take the