"security of its European
" Inhabitants".
The large
Coral Police Force which has
lately been remodeled at a
great Expense, and
about £24,000 for
Asrica731)
any large Military
Establishment, together with the
& Volunteer Artillery—mainly Established—could I
Consider
Any
sufficient under
conceivable circumstances
for the maintenance
of internal order without
recourse
to H. M. Troops.
The Europeans all live
together, and the population
is collected within a
radius
of about two miles The Chinese population
are
unarmed, and
addicted
to thieving, and petty crimes,
and have now a
large stake in the
Colony
The National characteristic of the people too is a
quick
obedience and submission to the powers that be except under
long
and unendurable provocation.
They are
further at all
one to live
hundreds of foreign Merchants
well in
harmony being
Ships