which the produce the
North & South destined
for consumption in china & are
changes
hands. In
the truth of these statements,
H. M. Govt entirely
concurs,
but they have
now been injuriously thrown out of
their natural effect on
On Colonial remonstrance;
it seems rather to
support the claim preferred
against
the Colony
clearly by inserting the
than to sustain the unimportant
if the agitation
the Imperial Govt's lowly regard to the
With
complaint of the Memorialists
what they
are
very heavily
that claim
have said nothing
about the Frankfurt
because Sir #Robinson
said
that the community
is indifferent to the subject. W.R.
I
164
relaxed, I would remind
You that in Singapore
a
settlement which in
many respects bears
analogy
to
the case of
Hongkong.
a tax or
in 1861 was
27. "1/4 per head, & in
174.
that year it was found
necessary
To
impose a Stamp tax on which is of a
wealthy
much less
character than
that of Hongkong.
The
imposition of that tax produced none of those disastrous results which were anticipated from the introduction of a fresh