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of the Colony Suffer.
Coould more or
less
My
belief
It was at that line
that by concessions on
our part
in this matter we might obtain
Concessions of kimportance & our Trade.
After the derived forvention Signed by Sir Rutherford Alcock was rejected in 1870, I still hoped that some bargain we be found possible, but the irritation occasioned by Rejection of the Convention was great & the Grand Secretary we scarcely listen
&
our
any proposition that involved recommencement of negotiations.
On
the fide of the Colony,
Colony, again,
then ademinis tered, there was
the Strongest objection
measures calculated to support.
as
birdently
Es Any
in the prosecution
duty
itself.
My
The Chinese Gout
of what I must consider as a
that it owes
1
My reports
369
the subject occupy
several despatches to be found
the 70. The Funn
in the Archives
J
of my propositions from First Elast was that we slid litter retrocede
Hongkong to the Chinese Goot or that we shed allow the Chinese Gove to establish a
brauch of
the Customs
Inspectorate at Houghong; liter Concession, of course, to be purchased
qus by
40
a counter-concession E
the general advantage of Brition Trade with China; - the particular advantage to Colonial Peace being
the reduction to
a
huimmun
the interference of the Chinese Revenue Services with rative craft.
The Houghing Commission Leis
presented a report whi, as I reach it, contests the right of
the Chinese Goot to search Chinese craft on the High Seas or even in its own waters within a given distance
of the Colony, if such Chimere
craft