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the Defences, and to promote the
general interests
"need hardly
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of
this Colony,
I
assure this Conneil
that I sympathize deeply with the
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grave
inconveniences to which our
mercantile com
community
subjected for
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have been
some time past in
consequence of the protracted France
Chinese complications. The general
depression of trade has, moreover,
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led to
a
Bercould
depression in
the public revenue. But I have.
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entire con
confidence in the elas
in the clasticity
our resources, and in the
of our
energy
and
and enterprise of this community; "and I hope that the return of peace I will soon restore the former
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prosperity and progress of Hongkong.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
5. Bowen
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