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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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