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of
the world similarly circumstanced, and apparently contradictory of my view, but the
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financially prosperous possession
Inon is excluded from present consideration by the forced labour system of the Dutch Government which would not be recognized under a British constitution.
30-
I have instanced the only Colonies in these regions actually bearing on the point, the one productive, the other like Hong Kong, non-productive, but in
my
Case
it
seems to me
that
the mother Country would have been amply repaid with the profits and advantages immediate and collateral resulting from her trade with the Colony and with the Countries adjacent, for promotion of which I assume the original Settlement to have been made.
31.
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I admit that it is the
duty of all Colonies to relieve the mother Country as far as they
can, and that this
duty is imperative on all producing Colonies, but in the case of
non-producing Colony like Hong Kong