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revenue to increase from something under one million dollars to something consider ably
over double that sum, or for the trade of a port thus penalised to become trebled in that period.
Mr. Whitehead proceeds to depict the sufferings of the "people of Hongkong" whom he represents as "Writhing under in "justice". It would be interest
ing
and
to know whether the people of Hongkong include only the 360 persons (the signatories to the petition) who compose Mr. Whitehead's following, if so by what right that very
small fraction of the community takes upon itself to represent the feelings of the remaining statement is singularly at vari ance with the fact that every
day
245,640. This
day
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witnesses a large number of Chinese seeking the protection of a paternal and beneficent. Government and fleeing the ex- tortions practiced under their own native administration. Mr. Whitehead further proceeds to style himself "the delegate" of "the people of Hongkong". It would have been more accurate if he had called himself the champion of a few political agitators, several of whom since they first trusted him with their sign- atures have openly expressed
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Mr Whitehead's statement
that nearly every British subject in the community signed the ~ petition presented by him to the House of Commons is contrary to fact. The number of British
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