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inefficient state, to judge by the amount of crime & the insecurity of property. Singapore serves as a penal settlement to the Supreme Courts in India. Chinese convicts at Hongkong might
be employed in making roads and drains, contributing at once to the communications and to the health of the new settlement: They might also do the work of military fatigue parties, and save men in that uncongenial climate.
It would be presumption in me to dwell on the details of the proposed civil establishment, and I shall therefore confine myself chiefly to the principles which may influence its administration, with a peculiar reference to changed & novel circumstances in China. Having before dwelt on the points of analogy between Singapore & HongKong, I must not omit to notice here the capital points of difference. Singapore
is far beyond the cognizance of the Chinese government, and from its position necessarily limited to being a Depot: Hongkong is within shot; almost within hail, of the mainland of China, and possesses facilities which may make it the modern Tyre. My Lord, the former relations with the Chinese government which have been effected by the results of the War; also alterations which the tumult of success & the fury of commercial speculation have left
to cool inter...
Referring to the treaty of Nanking, while China admitted no equality - but, on the contrary, beyond National prescribed, at the pole of English "celestial humanity," - while guilty of manslaughter, homicide by chance, the uses required for execution, and most trial, as amender... while at the same time equal protection of the laws was refused, I was one of the foremost to expose the absurdity of and talk about international law. When covenants were obtained by us, we were, as far as ever, from a settlement.
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therefore confine
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and talk about
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was obtained by us, we
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