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with the Arsenal, Commissariat : Military Stores and Magazines, all on a scale adapted to the operations scale and requirement of a large force ; Troops themselves in Ningpo for what purpose? Not the protection of the Settlement; but because H.B.M. Government have found it so well adapted for the special object of its acquisition in 1842, serving
1 base for carrying out views of Imperial Policy at the various Treaty ports of China and subsequently of Japan — dépôt for Men & materiel required in their disputes with those Countries.
But His Excellency the Governor has fully enlarged upon this head in his said despatch of 21st May 1863, without refutation, that Your Memorialists need not repeat the reasons therein adduced in which they so fully
You concur will therefore readily understand: the extreme regret and dissatisfaction with which the residents of Ningpo view a demand made upon them on account of expenses incurred almost entirely for the protection of other Settlements in the East & the general aims of H. B. M. Government – Your Memorialists moreover do not before you representing a community outlaying the total of their own taxation for the
come.