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"Colony. Speaking generally therefore i
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I see
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last remark, it
is the
only
" no objection to continuing in the Governor
hands the power proposed in the "Ordinance for banishing, watching
" and controlling the criminal decentes
"
of the population of the Colony, provided
these towers are exercised with due
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discretion." And.
کوت
again :
the
Colony under your Government
Secretary of State to Governor of Hongkong he 3-
( i. e . Hong Kong. ) has been hittier to
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-arded in this / i. e. the Colonial) Office,
regarded
"1
ao a
· place per se, to be dealt with on
principles which might not be sanctioned
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y.
elsewhere"
In confirmuation of the
last
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4 way
be observed that Gibraltar,
other possession of the British ~~~
Crown, the position of which is strictly
analogow to that of Hongkong.
have pointed out on
Hongkong
in
For, as I
· previous occasions,
like Gibraltar, is not a Colony.
any proper sense
utterly
of the teren . It is a
diximilar from the great Euglish
settlements in Australasia and America;?
it corresponds neither to the Colony
(2novnis) of the Greeks,
nor to the Colony
( Colonia ) of the Romans, which latter
to
name (as Adam Smith pointed out? in his "Health of Nations") is equivalent to the old English term "Plantation."
Rather