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write without a perfect Knowledge of the subject, will be entirely mainly Imperial, while as to the Gaols I would point out that their inmates are not properly criminal people belonging to the Colony, but chiefly pirates and Chinese belonging to the mainland, and that while their punishment is a consequence of jurisdiction, and in general public interests for the conservation and furtherance of which I assume the Colony to have been originally founded, the heavy expense of the custody and maintenance
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27. I confess that in making these remarks I cannot refrain from reflection on the case of the two neighbouring Colonies—Manila and Macao—The one a Spanish Colony of great fertility and power of production, the other a Portuguese Settlement producing nothing—Both have been hundreds of years in the hands of their present holders and each is called upon for contribution to the Treasuries of Spain and Portugal respectively.
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