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to Mr Canaul Robertson's suggestions certain disadvantages for removing present imposed from one in transitu .om at goods Chinese Port to another via Hongkong.
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Under As Mr Legerton's letter to the Secretary of State invites Your Grace's attention to Mr Robertson's 11 ¡Suggestions as deserving of consideration." and Your Grace has transmitted them to me subject. I am expected to report com the
3. In my dispatch No 392 of the 14th No L tetats f 392 36767. chria 30. for watt 14 November 1867 I have already pointed out the unfairness of imposing increased duties com to launton. if taken via Hongkong. todo, W
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and so placing Hongkong in a worse position relative to Chinese Commerce were merely generally, than if it Treaty Port. I am glad to find that M. Robertson at last ventures to his concurrence in that view. O jyo cannot conceive anything more unwise thom creating a British Colony in the bust, and holding out inducements to British Subjects and others to Settle there, and nevertheless withholding from such Colony the commercial business facilities which conceded to residents in the Treaty Ports. I assume that Great Britain ultimately withheld whatever facilities she did not include in a dictated Treaty which she