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Governor Hennessy relies, if Ido not mistate his meaning, upon the Chinese
who pass
through the Colony to the number
Shise 7 700,000
year.
are beyond all doubs subjects
of China, and I feel
sure
that their enrolment ar Troops, within two miles the shore of China, would soon provoke remonstrance
opposed therefre
Lam
to extatment at thong kong,
w
to the employment of Chinese
as
Soldiers
except within
narrow limits, in
very
the Colony.
On the other hand
ал
ала
distance from the
be
Colony, I should heartily glad to see them
to employed. Paid and led
as they
would
ва
ander
British Officers, no better
Troops coved.
Fifteen years ago
be found.
I submitted
to Sir Frederick Bruce, then
my chief,
a
proposition
to jorn regments for service in India, which
a certain term
ustored
Country
after
might be
to their
سسسس
as part of its
The dea
regular anny
was
a
great deal
tos novel
however
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