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which there is
Harbor invites the flags of all nations
nothing in its Legislation to repel. Ito Laws give privileges to any, but afford
equal security to all, and I am
crsuaded the equity with which Justice is administered is
beginning
to produce a most salutary effect on the minds of the Chinese people.
1
The
year through which
we
have passed has been one of great
crubarrassment.
The unhappy misunderstanding among the Officials fomented by passionate partizanship and by a reckless and slanderous Newspaper press made the conduct
of Public Affairs one of extreme difficulty - and in a Colony like this where
are
functionaries
to find fit
easy
if
displaced it is not
successors; the
distance from home and the indifferent reputation of the climate - (not a good
one
certainly but its unhealthiness has been much exaggerated) rendu
it so little attractive that few desirable
be found for Official
candidates can
employment. I had sometimes reason to fear that the machinery of administration would be absolutely dislocated by the unseemly contentions which could not but greatly impair
the
efficiency of officers is frequently engaged in mutual recriminations
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