wishes should be consulted &
their interests carefully watched.
communities with
-?. The extermi...
Hong Kong
which are
is in the petition unfavourably contrasted, as
regards
its mode of
government
are Malta, Cyprus,
And
Mauritius,
British Honduras.
to me
Hong Kong, it seems your dependencies
all of these in
differs from all of
and in kind. It is
gree smaller than
it has no
any
history, gold
or traditions,
no record of old settlement
rights.
macy of political
and constitutional
rights. It has practically
no indigenous population;
and if I understand right,
it has few inhabitants lifelong
the British frown alike
residents, whether European
or Chinese, deb... It is more
nearly
in a line with
Station ...
to an Imperial ...fectious
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Gibraltar
in a
foreign land, though it is less of a fortress than Gibraltar
and more of an emporium of
I
...
8. It is perhaps a fair account
of Hong Kong and its fortunes as a Buss... calmly, I say that
50
years ago
it was taken
by and for the British. Brown
To
serve Imperial purposes,
to
and safeguard British Trade
in the far East.
Holding
a commanding
position at the mouth of the Canton river; it is endowed by
nature with
a fine harbour, which has