It seems universally admitted that something more must be done than is now effected - but that admission does not prove that the additional outlay requisite should fall specially on ...
On the contrary, it is maintained that even for mere sanitary purposes - and also for the important collateral advantages which Hong Kong may reasonably be expected to gain from the suppression of Piracy by strengthening her water and shore Police and improving her system of registration of Shipping, there is more to be done than can be effected by any probable available surplus revenue of the Colony. I even further think that the £200,000 per annum already given is more than the quintessential amount which the Colony should contribute towards the Imperial Exchequer for its defence.
I am therefore naturally reluctant that, before issuing any final instruction - whilst I might have a duty to carry out ...
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Mr Cordwell Mindele will have before him all the elements for a polite decision, including the existing feeling on the subject, so far as I can ascertain.
I also feel unusually strongly that whether twenty or fifty thousand pounds be required, it is absolutely essential that Piracy should be put down, and if contributions are to be obtained from the Colony - quite apart from what might apparently be expected from other sources - especially from the Chinese Government. The latter has been occasionally liberal with its money, and till it be found impossible to obtain its effective Naval or Money Cooperation, I think it premature to press for a sum such as the amounting sums fun...
... Contributes a large sum to the British Exchequer already.
I would further explain that when it was proposed that some part of the sum per annum, or a part of it, which is paid to the British Treasury should be expended in a couple of gunboats by the Hong Kong...
f. Homstway and other Creal Considerations, Suggest the expediency of tying some such new arrangement.
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