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and it's Garrison is maintained for "general national objects"! Mr. Blirth Memorandum? "2. that the Imperial trade
for the encouragement of which it was granted, is so important financially to the mother country that one item alone (the Tea duties) furnishes, or did recently furnish
a tenth of whether the local resources of
the whole Imperial Revenue
fourteen years of its existence. If the Mother Country wanted an establishment like Hongkong and by establishing it, it is proved that she did want it, she could only get it by paying for it or by making others pay for it, and last she did. Up to the end
of
1846
(necessarily nominal) Parliamentary
Grants
were
the
Indemnity
this Colony
hould be impounded to the certain
Lindrance
of
it's advancement and
success.
19.
Before proceeding to the second point I would remark on
the
argument
used that Hongkong has cost the mother Country £275,000 during the first
really stamped out
Fund
the
extracted
from
the
Chinese Government under the
Nanking Treaty - Though nominally voted by Parliament,
no portion of it came out of the Pocket
of
the
the British Isles, and that intervened
from
1846 to the date of the cessation