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accertained that come of
the
unofficial Members of Council
were not disposed to view the project very favourably
2.
Last August on consulting Mr Keswick (to whom Mr. Price had, at my suggestion, communicated the contents of the Beciated! he frankly abured me that he was entirely
corpored to the inex of exending my money in baol extension: that he
believed the Hong Kong
Gave
was
the Eriminals
quite large enough for really belonging to the Colony, and that he thought the Government should leal with the Chinese thieves by
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Flogging and deporting them and not by feeding them in prison. He was
of
opinion trat
any man returning
from deportation should be publicly Flogged at once and again deported forthwith.
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Mr Lowcock, I understand,
entertaine a similar opinion.
4. Under such circumstances. have not instructed me
though you
to hay the Despatch before the Legislation Council, I have ventured to do so,
as
I am at all tirues most anxious
to ascertain by the full expression of Spinion in sublic Council the views of those who represent is important