like the sister
Be been carefully kept as a free port: strongly protected by an Imperial garrison and British ships of war
owed its prosperity to there it has boomed from territorial advantages, to the policy of the Imperial government, and to the fact that, being strongly guarded, it has attracted a large population who have found that under British rule their lives and their property have been safe.
I should be inclined to judge not merely that it has prospered as a Crown Colony but that it has prospered greatly because it has been a Crown Colony.
The Straits Settlements,
DRAFT.
Icons about this. I think it had better be submitted.
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Mr. Fairfield.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bromston.
Mr. Meade.
Mr. Buxton.
Marquess of Ripon.
all bitterne
has measure 369 prospered in great! because it has been a Crown Colony gov?
[The expenses of the British empire stalents that under the Crown Colony gov?]
Hi Chinese have fared best, and that for time freedom from import duties, to the continuance of which the petitioners with reason attach importance, may be attained in the Crown colonies is enjoyed of Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, but not in the great self-governing colonies of the empire.
It may however be contended that while the Crown Colony system was "Suited to the infancy of