abortive, should conduct us
by a
easy)
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transition to its actual standing and present prospects ; which I propose to lay before
to the best of my knowledge
Subjoined.
GemoiAN.
dummand)
کرے اور مجھے
the
have the honor to be
Your Excellency:
Most Obedient humble servt
&. H. Mitchel
Wieleria, Hongkong.
November 10th 1850.
Memorandum upon its parent
Condition of trade and
the
prospects of the
Colony of Hongkong
I now propose to consider the
Colony
as it stands, to set forth the
briefly
I am glad to say
a
prosperous
I entertain.
by
trade carried on in it and to discuss
its bona fide prospects, and these
Milans discouraging
Are
I find the settlement at this
condition; and
ent in
22,077 tons
fair hopes of its future, when certain obstructions,
local and
political, which I shall presently notice, shall have been removed.
Though the Treaty of Nanking had the effect of cutting off Hongkong from all share in the trade between Great Britain and China, there was one use
for it which it could not disturb.
The
and has since continued; the port shortly became
the
great depôt of our Opium traffic
on
these