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goot in looking after its duties does not damage the interests of Hongkong, & it is surprising how this feeling pervacres all classes creating a spirit of antagonism which, it is fortunate
for our good relations
with China is confined to the
narrow limis.
Colony..
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Possibly there
a small
there are or have
been cases of hardship in the seizure of junks & the collection of duties, but I have never
investigated
tect a complaint
yer
forwarded from the Fongtong
Goot, without discovering either
undoubted
proof of evasion of
duties or sufficient, at least, to
make it
very suspicions, but
be that as it m
may
there can
be no question altho' the
Comers
appear to ignore the
Jack, that the Chinese authorities are fully entitled to use what means they please to collect 390 their duties & if the Colonists Foreign or native find the mode adopted two restrictive to meet their views they have themselves to thank for
•for the
has
for the
Colony,
been for years a depêt
gale of arms & munition f
war, saltpetre, salt, & goods wh. have evaded duties; & often have I had the enquiry addressed to me by the High Authorities, cannot the sale of arms & munition of war at Hongkong be a toppect? The Colony arms our
pirates &
rebels & is a source of trouble
but my
✩
in
many
warp;
reply is
no it cannot be
that they
stopped - the result being
now stop it themselves
to the great indignation of
the
Jack