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with the high office of Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, would naturally and necessarily associate the policy and proceedings of his government with the great object of making originally proposed the Colony (and has been invariably intended) subservient to our vast interests in China, - and an auxiliary of great importance it undoubtedly is for promoting and securing those interests, whereas the views - the Administrator would of necessity be confined and local. Of our relations with China he could have no adequate knowledge, nor could his Colonial policy be influenced at all by diplomatic considerations.
4. It is true that the Lieutenant Governor is prohibited from taking part in matters directly affecting our relations with China and the Chinese, but when it is remembered that the population of Chinese in the Colony is, as compared with all other residents (excluding the Military) in the proportion of more than 100 to 1, it becomes clear that all legislation - all government, all administration must for its safe and successful conduct be...