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Your Excellency has
the honor to request that I submit
my opinions upon the actual condition, trade, and prospects of this colony,
be careful to point out
any difficulties
that I
may
seem to me to beset
its progress.
I have to thank Your Excellency,
for the compliment to
my
opinion implied.
in your request, though I fear it has little
to recommend it beyond a long
and intimate
experience of the settlement.
Before entering upon the
subject). I purpose with,
His Excellency
Samuel George Bonham Governor of Hongkong
Main
your permission, to
take