the
to collect and bring up Emigrants from the Country, to the Port of embarcation. I think the enclosed correspondence shews that, provided liberal terms be offered such
as a return passage or $50 at the end of five years, it is possible to give by legitimate and fair
means a relief to the redundant population of China, and also to confer the inestimable benefit of Chinese industry and labor on the West Indies.
Your Lordship's Department
may perhaps have been already kept well informed as to all
these details by
$40
Mr Sampson,
but I have nevertheless thought
it advisable that,
the enclosed Correspondence has arisen from
incident here, I should transmit it to Your Lordship.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
humble Servant,
Richard Graves MacDonnell
Governor.