is not unknown to me, and still less do I ignore the false judgments and many errors one may be led into by a free established opinion, which scorns at enquiry and works out in exceptions.
Your Excellency knows, as well as the Public, that since I assumed the Government of this Colony I have endeavored by certain measures which I deemed necessary to render the process of Emigration followed in this Colony effective and more complete.
All those who call themselves humanitarians may rest well assured that, by a strict compliance with the Portuguese Regulations, the only Soldiers, who will come to be enlisted at Macao in the great army of universal labour, will be those Soldiers who in the plenitude of their liberty may wish to accept the Contract, and serve under it. What is honourable is that the Portuguese Regulations may not have been well understood.
The Superintendency of Immigration and the "Procuradoria" for Chinese affairs, in the Senate House Square, are now open every day to the Public, and there all who may...
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