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But whether the latter could be enforced in the case of the class of persons generally employed to collect Emigrants is a question which can be decided only by one on the spot.
5. In the end of his despatch Sir R. McDonnell suggests that whenever W. Sampson desires to make a representation to the Home Government which affects Hongkong, he should, to save time and to prevent misapprehension, communicate it in the first instance to the Colonial Government. In this suggestion I entirely agree. Indeed as far back as Jan 1865, W. Sampson was directed to follow the course proposed by Sir R. McDonnell. That he did not do so in the present instance is to be attributed no doubt to the fact I have above pointed out, that in his letter he made no allusion whatever to Hongkong, but only to the emigration from Macao, and that in forwarding the newspapers which accompanied his letter he did not expect