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who have settled in this British
Colony; for it will be remembered that when the island of Hougtong first occupied by England,
was
it was uninhabited save
by a
few fishermen and pirates.
4.
It will be observed
that the enclosed Memorandum.
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As I have stated on occasions, I have always enforced
justice _ "not dry but sympathetic justice - towards all the races in this heterogeneous community.
And as
I wrote in a recent_
En despatch (N = 348 of September 5, th ultimo); " I feel much sympathy
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course so as never to run counter,
without grave necessity, to their
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