Government – than which. China man values. Mue a and thing and for this they have been made to pay. They constitute 98 per cent of the population, and contribute nearly a similar proportion of the revenue. They have made the Colony the centre of a large local coasting trade dépôt at which the produce of north and South, destined for consumption in China, changes hands. And although this is a trade which enriches the Colony in which no National interest is concerned, while the chief profit derived by the Colony from the foreign trade (for which there is a National interest, and the protection of which is maintained) consists in the men and personal expenditure of those connected with that trade who use the Colony. It is a directing centre for their trade.
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