"another Carthage with a population equal to that of Ancient Rome." It was
and I believe as later
after
the Treaty Sir John Davis stake & his opinion in a
export to his Government, that this Colony must supersede Canton as the seat of trade in the south of China. It was after the Treaty or rather from June
1844 (date of the first land sale) to
the end of 1844 that the
&
of the day
le secure a
a great object Merchants was
berth in the future centres
of British trade with China. It was nearly five years after the Treaty that one of our leading houses built the
Hongkong Exchange shore the merchants of both Countries were to congregate; while merchants of either
once entered its doors in
pursuit of trade, and that it was
first
Converted).
Christian Church and
Court of Justice,
inte a
int
forcible
Comun
entary
finally
is in itself a
I on the precipitate judgement, and general misapprehension of the altered position of the settlement;
manifeste d
1
E
manifestros throughout. Even
Your Excellency's
some live
not teanting
I believe there were not team
certain enthusiasts who endeavoured to impress you
with their own wild notions
of the high destinies of the colony,
that it on
to
assure
removal of this
Required
only se
and
that restriction, and the
practices of the same which marked
your
it per saltum into
It is freely foretty
Excellency
More Arber
Con
congenial legislation
former jule, to raise
another Singapore. It is well known however that Your viewed the difficulty very
that while
Doberly, despair of the Colony
you
mach
did not
or under rate its value.
as an essential outport to our general
commerce in these waters, and an excellent position for political establishment, you came to the conclusion that its original
vastly
prospects were to.
altered; and that
Fuch as remained to it must now
b
matter of slow and gradual development;
up on the naturels decay of
depending more
Ontain