the
be required to lodge the import & export manifests with Consul, and the
owners
being
Keown, the half? You too would have no difficulty in obtaining the duties of
attempt them. I imagine
was made to endeavour
that if
too
Consulate was established we
a
Should
in
time see
built steamers &
foreign vessels
the
owned by Chinese frequenting the Harbours & rivers off Coast & thus largely
increase
the trade of Hong Kong, the descriptions Muchanstige
and the Squabbles & complaints, a perpetual appeals to the You ne, and certainly to the supreme & magistrial Courts, I am inclined therefore that both for political & social & economical reasons
to think
and
328
two the accomplishment
and thus to the accomplishment
of the Madis proposition would
come to
Car
order of things disturbing existing
ly
the natural
& without
a condition.
At first probably great
& native
opposition would be exhibited
the Foreign Communities at Hongkong, and perhaps the Colonial
but I have no doubt
You
Our
Merchants would ultimately
1
ultimately
arrive at the conviction that the result was beneficial, and the enforcement of the payment of
by
the
duties
Chinese Traders is
the best guarantee for retaining
foreign
I
trade in their hands
t
increasing I have etc
(a) B. B. Robertson