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As to that from Macao, I cannot admit such an inference, and I think Vid. Gov. los. S.
I have shown conclusively enough that the Regulation in force here must prevent improper practices in the mode of obtaining Coolie Emigrants from the interior by the simple process of rendering such irregularities hazardous and finally not merely fruitless but expensive when the Emigrants do arrive here.
I have no doubt, I think it might hereafter be matter of serious regret, either as regards the Chinese themselves or other nations that Sir Rutherford Alcock's denunciation of my existing Coolie Emigration under contract should be accepted by Her Majesty's Government.
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and should decide this policy, I wish to point out that the petition which evoked that denunciation, is petition from laborers in Penang, who, they state, had been shipped from "Macao, and the anchorage of Kwang-Chow-Wan, just north of it." I cannot, I therefore, regard such a petition, if all its statements be true, as an indiscriminate, even prejudicing, denunciation of Emigration conducted from other Ports under very different auspices.
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More especially I would invite the serious consideration of Your Lordship and Other Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners to the consequence of any Policy which would close this Port against Emigration.