amounts
20 deducted
were properly carried
to the credit of Imperial Government,
because that Government
had to make good
much larger sum,
in order
to supply
the deficiency of the
revenue of Hong Kong;
I am directed by
the Earl to
Duke of
request that
you
It
will
lay before their Lordships
the copy of
a
further
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despatch from the Governor
of Hongkong remonstrating
against that decision. His Grace leaves the
question,
as
before, to
the Judgment of
their
Lordships: At the
same time he cannot avoid expressing
concurrence
with the
Governor
of Hong Kong,
to this extent,
that
the mode thus adopted
of repaying the Imperial
Government for its