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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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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

严论

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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