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Sympathy and patience - nor even in nine cases out of ten does it exist - of residents under the British flag, but simply of the refuse population of the opposite Provinces, and Piratical banditti, who hang about the town and harbor. Kidnapping and robbing when a chance presents itself. Hence there is no moral obligation to undertake what would be here a Quixotic task of reforming by law Criminal Code and disciplining the migratory refuse of many millions of Chinese. What need is simply to deter them from coming here at all, and to send them back when they do come in such circumstances as to deter them from returning.
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Yea, though the actual reform of the criminal is not and cannot constitute here so prominent a concern of the Government as at Home - the very cleanliness, order, and discipline of the Gaol which in those respects under the management of Mr. Douglas may vie with the best conducted establishment in England - does no doubt exercise a useful and improving effect. Nevertheless, though I regard such collateral result with satisfaction, I feel that self preservation is, and must long be the leading principle of the Criminal Code here.
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Our dealings with the Chinese have fortunately been greatly simplified by the extreme dislike which the Chinese entertain of...