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...prove of great benefit to the trade with China.
I have received from the Deputy Commissary General a very favourable account of the circulation of the British Coin sent out by the Treasury. He tells me it has proved extremely useful for small payments, and the Chinese have ever brought dollars to him to be exchanged for sterling. He is going to apply for 10,000 more to the amount of ...
To judge by the augmented number of respectable Chinese shops, the native trade and industry of this place are on the increase. Many of the products of Chinese manufacture it is no longer necessary to send to Fauton, as they can be procured equally well here. A check has been given to piracy in this neighbourhood by the capture and conviction before the Admiralty Court of some Pirates, and by the delivery (on Police demand according to Treaty) of others to the Chinese Government. One Pirate was condemned, and executed here in January last, and three more sentenced to transportation for life.
The Judicial, and Police Departments continue to be the heaviest civil charges of the Colony. It is to be hoped that a smaller English Police force may by degrees be required, and I would recommend that any future Superintendent, or Inspectors of Police be selected from persons on the spot, acquainted as these are with the Chinese population, rather than that members of the Metropolitan force should be sent out from England to a community whose habits and language are entirely strange to them, and in respect to whom they are therefore placed at a comparative disadvantage.
I have had the satisfaction to state that the completion of the Colonial ...
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TLC.O. 133
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COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO | BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- | ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF 'THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDONĮ
prove of great benefit to the
with China..
trade
• to the general tra
-
I have received from the Deputy Commissary General a very farmerable account of the circulation of the British Coin sent out by the Treasury . He tells me it has proved
extremely useful for small payments, and
the Chinese have
that
ever
brought
dollars to
him to be exchanged for sterling . He is going to apply for.
10,000..
more to the amount of
To judge by the augmented number of respectable. Chinese shops, the native trade
and industry of this place
are de
the increase.
many of the products of Chinese manufacture it is no longer necessary to send to fauton, as they can be procured equally well here. A cheek has been given to piracy
in this neighbourhood by the capture and
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conviction before the Admiralty Court of some Pirates, and by the delivery (on
Police
demand according to Treaty ) of others to the Chines Government
Government. One Pirate
was
condemned, and executed here in January
last, and three more sentenced to transportation
for life...
The Judicial, and Police Departments continue to be the heaviest civil charges of the Colony. It is to be hoped that a smaller English Police force inay by degrees be required. and I would recommend that any future_ Superintendent, or Inspectors of Police be selected from persons the Spot, acquainted as these are with the Chinese population, rather than that member of the Metropolitan force should be sent out from rugland to a community. whore habits and language are entirely
to them, and in respect to whom they
strange
are
a
therefore placed at a
disadvantage-
comparative
I have had the satisfaction to state that the completion of the Colonial faol
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