form a very small proportion of the British population, and
thanks Her Majesty for themselves
do not
continue to
bound
protect
for
An
entrepôt of
the Chinese trade, however important it may be at the sole,
it may be at the expense of the British subjects who make war
the
sovereign by great
Pressing, when the
Imperial efforts, things
have been placed
in a
position
they
are able to contribute
towards the cost of that protection.
I am fully
aware
that, if satisfaction of the fair claims of the Imperial Government
were to be postponed
until all Colonial
improvements which
are desirable in themselves
had been
executed out of the produce of existing taxes, that satisfaction of those
Claims would
be deferred for ever
The real
question
is whether the wealth
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