There
may
have been even then
generation in their views,
" exaggeration
they were face
And
legitimate ;
Some de
of the degree but in the and had
Train
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disputes with this Government
ended with Captain Elliot's Convention, and had fallen back into our old position at Canton, with the important difference
of having Hong Kong outside it; there can no doubt that the expectations formed
of our
new acquisition, were in a
of being realized ;
and
that
in a few years:
a bay
extensive traffic must have spring up
around this barren rock. But it was not
to be. The war broke out again, that series of operations commenced, which,
In the end destined to revolutionize the whole foreign
in the Treaty of Nanking, were
ulations of this empire. To
place us on a better footing
and give us a larger
in it. But at this
same time to destroy for
ever the prospects
of this Colony
as the future centre of the
trade between Great Britain and China.
Thenceforth the position of the colony
and
28 February, 1850.
her, ...
and it's prospects,
were Con Olant.d?
arising
chances Canton breeding
outlooks
this place
I have gone back into this brief
history of the colony as exhibiting its position before the Treaty of Nanking,
in order
to examine how such immense expectations
came to be formed of it at all; and now proceed
to shew that
entertained for
years
after the Treaty had
been signed. Its capital position
was
totally
altered,
yet
the old views were still
entertained and relied upon, and any
change whatever to
was stubbornly ignored.
It was after the Treaty of Nanking that Sir Henry Pottinger proclaimed Hong Kong
the
grand emporium of Eastern Asia, to be
' another