questioned whether they are desirous of proceeding, that after they are embarked they have every opportunity of making any objection wither to the Police Constable who is always in attendance, or to the Shipping Agent who daily visits the ship, and eventually himself, and that if they change their minds they are immediately landed. - In the face of this explanation it is difficult to understand how emigrants can be carried off against their will.
6. Mr. Thornton Warner, the Emigration Agent for Kinidad at Calcutta who in April last was despatched to China to inquire into Chinese Emigration, in his report (a copy of which I enclose in case it may not yet have reached the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos) describes in similar terms the Hong-Kong practice in this matter. He states that the rules in force there for the collection and despatch of Emigrants are all that can be required, that if the Emigration Agent and the Protector of Emigrants do their duty it appears impossible that one Coolie can be substituted for another after the contract is signed, or that any