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of

the Hong Kong Govern =

-ment will

confined, and

them

mow

be

that

it is

the

efforts of the Government

should be concentrated.

I need hardly add that Her Majesty's

Government deem

it

of the highest injorance

that the Colony

should perform it's dukes

in these respects, in

such

O

Man er

as

to fumish

am

example

to the Chinese Government

fitting support

curd

O

to the commerce

which it's

depends.

prosperity

I have read

with much.

and

interest

have communicated

to the Foreign Office

your correspondence

with Sir R. Alcock

and Mr Robertson.

The

proposal that

the Government of Chima

should pay to that of Great Britain

species of subsidy

be applied towards

the suppression of piracy

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