that Mr Wade and the inevitable complete loss of British prestige in the eyes of the Chinese, and without the slightest reason, as I have shown, to suppose that the benefit which he expects to accrue to Hong Kong trade can follow from warding off preventive Revenue operations - which have been for years already in operation - or that he can propose such a gigantic revolution in all the Commercial operations of Hong Kong, to subjection to such a Power, a complete forfeiture of British liberty in a British Colony, and such subversion of protection to those frequenting it, and above all such a total overthrow of the freedom of the Port - that talisman which has converted a fishing village into a magnificent City in a few years, the faith of whose construction has drawn many millions of Capital, huge warehouses constructed, convenient docks built, and trade created rivalling and exceeding that of all other lines.
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