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From what I have written regarding the introduction of the petition to the public, I hope it will be understood that it was no voluntary expression of local political aspiration but a spurious "movement" which was got up with the evident hope that great popularity would be gained for the party advocating local government changes, popularity not only among Europeans, but among Chinese as well, as may be gathered from the following significant words addressed to his native friends by the promoter. When alluding to the petition he said that when he returned he hoped to find them "in full possession of such modified right of representation as is fitting