Sa new
engagement, he will be entitled,
"to a bounty, and will retain his : "right to the return passage at the - cxpiration of such second engagement. " "The right of the immigrant to
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a return passage extends to his . - wife and to his _Children who - quitted India under the age of ten years, as well as to those born in "The Colony.
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A
secondl› Convention between Gt Britain & Frances relative to the emigration of labourers from India to the French Colonies, signed at Paris on the 1st of July 18 61, the principle is re-a
-affirmed, & the 8th
article, about contracts, makes.
precisely similar stipulations.
I scarecly see how, in
sie how, in the face of
such mutual conventions, twice deliberately entered into within the
both by Gt Britain
last ten years
and
& France, either Power can now 314 insist upor less favorable conditions for the Chinese Coolie. Fortunately, perhaps, as regards any chance of success in such a negotiation, the Chinese Govt is ignorant of the facts, or it would not fail to take advantage of them, to resist -effectually any efforts of Foreign Powers to impose upon it, agains it's convictions, harsher terms hav
coere
to the
they would accept for themselves, by which Chinese subjects consigned to a state of quasi-slang in countries where China can exercisi neither surveillance nor Controul.
I have Al
(2) R. Alcock
P.S. I have the honour to inclose herein the Copes of a Nate. I have addressed to Prince Kung on this subject. The desp: to which it is a
was transmitted to your reply Lordship in my desp: No. 118.
(52) R.A.