The number of Chinese who have quitted the Colony is variously citimated
ut from Inventy to Thirty
Thousand-
very...
many of the Crown Tencents have abondared.
their Shops - Marchouses and
thise who remain are
houses and
very unwilling to pay
their rents . The flight of the holder of
the Oprium Monopoly.
is announced) -
Happily, the prosperous State of eur finances enables us for the prevent to bear up against then unverse circumstanur but I fear if the Chinen
are not made
to pay the penalty of these hostile assaults
upon the Colony, they may at any
be repeated.
time
I have the hover to be,
with the highest respect,
Ser,
Your Most Obedient. Humble Servant, Schubamirz
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