Governor Hennessy relies, if

Ido not mistatte his meaning, upon the Chinese

who pass

through the Colony to the number

of 700,000

These

sure

A

year:

are beyond all doubs subjects

of China, and I feel that their anrolment ar Troops, within limo miles the shore of China, wo soon provoke remonstrance.

Лат

pposed therefre

of

to enlistment at hong kong,

to the employment of Chinese

as soldiers.

except within very

narrow limits, in

the Colony.

On the other hand

ал

ata

Colony,

distance from the

I should

heartily glad to see

be

them

to employed. Paid and led

as they

would be under

British Officers, no better be found.

Troops coved

Fifteen years ago

I submitted

to Sir Frederick Bruce, then

my chief,

a

proposition

to joun repments for service ворит

in India, which

a certain term

بالمقتمكسيم

Country

after

temme might be

to their

as part of its

The den

regular any

was a

great deal

tor novel however

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