we pay for similar expenses at Gibraltar-
and Bermuda. If Hong Kong
St. Helena
should be core so rich as to be able to
hear some
of the military charges, we
call
it to contribute
but
resources are not-
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проп might perhaps, towards such expense; At present Hong Hong flourishing, and this country has been
d to give it £ 20,000, to er
£20,000, enable yo compelled it to meet the extraordinary, expenses of the War with Canton. If the local reverme is diminished by this proposed exerrption of the Military Aritionties
the land they from the quit-rents
have
occasion to
on
purchase
and Dr
Bridges states "that he hears from
"very go and authority that they purpose buying all the land let on
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lease
" within the Cantonments" __ the Colony will sustaina
a very considerable loss.
Upon whoon will fall the burthen of supplying such deficiency? The answer
must be beat Britain. If so
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If so, it is
sively not so very material to the War office that it should wish to exempt itself from this charge, and
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assume the
throw it
Lase
If
must incred
Estimate pro tanto for
a
Le orn
in Parliamentary
a
military,
not
civil object. Upon general prericiples
agree with the axiom of the War
– but ini.
:
Office
my opinion there must be occasional exception's froom the rule, and the present instance should, I think, form
one
of them,
a
place settled.
for Hong Hong is not by British Emigrants in the sense
commercial entrepôt
of
a
Colony, but a
of
of the Herigdown during peace, and a military station during Har, justly, demanding the pecuniary assistance the mother country for all expenses of a military nature, and especially
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