the proceedings of our Alliance,
who had no
permanent
Establishments other than
Marseilles, and who made
that the basis
of
their
operations and attempted to
organize
their
Expeditionary Force, and
to dispatch it direct and
complete from Rennes to
the scene of
operations.
its intended
A
22.
The
Exceptional
character of Hongkong,
a watch tower keeping guard
over commercial
relations
with China"
1847
227
as it were over National
interests with which it has
only but a
slight and
remote connection has been fully admitted by high
Authorities who have looked
into the subject. In 1847 the House of
Commons reported: -
"For we do think it
right that the burden of maintaining
a post for general influence and the protection of the
general trade
in the
China Seas rather than a
Colony
in the ordinary
sense should be thrown