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Memorandum on

đang trong

Colony

Hong Hong - for Lord Stanley

can never be a

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By reason of its limited size; rocky barren structure; incapability of producing any of the necessaries of life for even one day- "under

ary

and

circumstances cannot

*

"be expected to afford any "considerable revence towards the "payment of its own expenses."

reason of its disadvantageous

Hong Kong cannot be viewed - By

Commercial Emporium - geographical position, from the

2 a

for greater facilities for trade afforded by lanton and by other ports and places in Cluna, by the distance from any populous or productive territory; - by the poverty and piratical character

of

the adjacent islanders and inhabitants; - by "the total absence of an import or export

hade of any kind "*

after nearly

five years 1British occupation,

and a

large Governmental and private expenditure; and, by the Americans, Parsees, "Chinese "Merchants or even shopkeepers "with the smallest pretension " to property "" avoiding the Island, which was never actually required " by the British alterchants, and "hat become even less so since

"the opening of the Five Climese "ports" *

5th Stong Flong is unsuited for By reason (et) of the impracticability

a Fortress-

of fortifying

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continuous and

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* [ Merchants Memorial to Lord

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