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Houghong four times a
wwith by
means of the direct steamers fromr balcutta, and those from Bombay
their ouvri
and others of China will take steps of for the transmission of their
not that reliance.
tlus
also, yet there is
to be placed on the means.
provided as there would be in the
regular communication the French line of Packets may furnish, and which must be of the uitinost v~ importance to the foreign community of China, and further the thirst here for opportunities of sending and receiving correspondence is known to be of such magnitude, that I am strongly of
opinion unless
arrarige
invents are made
the vi
for mails to be conveyed by the
Mouthly French Packets, the Merchants
letters by these Vessels in an irregular
wrey,
which
may
reduce the Revenue
of the British Post Office, and consequently
v
affect the Colonial Revenue derived ~~ from its Post Office; it appears however that the advantage to be derived from Muils to and from China and the Wuited Kingdour king sent by
these Packets will depend upour v v
whether
can
a not arrangemcuts be made for their regular transenission from the United Kingdow to tharseilles on the one hand, and four Marseilles to the United Kingdom
other.
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the