and Hon.
Hong Kong
We were
as alist aston
triangles with equal sides and angles,
but I do assert that, for all practical
purposes in
measuring
as
to the probable
result of such an experiment here, there
is great encouragement held out by
undoubted analogy
by the
which all must
admit to exist between the two places.
17. Both
merely Commercial Parts,
both are free ports, and both are inhabited
by great numbers of Chinese, who, whether
more or
less
life migratory, preserve the
distinctive character of their race longer
than
any
other people, I will have
as suggested by the Memorialists
assertion to the contrary, that equal facilities for trade do not exist elsewhere
for the residents of either place. If
Merchants
of China
go
on the mainland
where there are
laws, and not only legal laws but
frequently illegal exactions or where he is not liable to insecurity of property, where he does not find generally
Executive to confront internal
rebellion and disturbance?
20.
It is true that,
trade he was
formerly carried on,
and the fact that
a
preferred settling on
to returning to Canton’s Island and, with a
great sacrifice of
vested property,
undertaking the double expense of building stone and dredging here is rather a proof that the