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to Chinese Customs have been made
are
welcomed respectable natives considered
Ward,
gratefully by
by
whom
they
the
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to regards the Gpulation of the
we
third have no land
abitation but live wholly on the
water another third
considered in a state vo
May
be
tate of perpetual
migration and shifting comicile.
and even
upon
those mine respectible people who have longest inhabited
the Seland we have lately seen that
tune
than Twenty thousand have abandoned their families and Heir business at the Arbitrary
mandate of the Mandarins on the mainland. & may be doubleh I here be an oralente native in
if there be
now who would reture
Boughing
bedience to the Authorities in
China on take the bath of
or
allegiance to the Queen of bacat Britain - such a populata
Can
hardly be dealt with as the matinal boom Subjects of Hu But I fully
Majesty.
appreciate the demablemen
F
breaking down as far as possible
every distinction which is prejudicial to the interests and
the whole wellbeing of Community
and can with