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dircetly or indireetly from the Trade with

this humpire, should in Common Justies bear. the expence incurred in affording them equally protection and facility for conducting

their

business provided for by the Treaty existing between Great Britain and China, and

in the next they

that. the chief part pray of the expenses of the Colony may be charged against the Reverse derived from the

Trade between the two Countries which is cetimated at. from 7 to 8 Millions of Sounds Sterling annually._

4. If I understand the meaning of this part of the Petition, it is intended to

that the Revenue neecitary for

the pray maintenance of this bland should not

be levied on the Mercantili

firmes

and

inhabitants residing at Houghing, but on - the funds of the Imperial Government, and if this be their intention it is a

if

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question

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the

which it. is unncecssary for

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me to

matter has been reported

on by a fommittee of the House of Commons, and is one which Her Majesty's bovernment

can

alone determine; but if the intentions of the Petitionen be more es

mly

confined, and they

mean to assert that the mercantile Community resident at the consulates should

in some degree be made to contribute towards the maintenance of this (glony, from the existence of which there

bc

doubt that

they receive benefit, then I have to remark. that the only means I am aware

of for out their views would be

the carrying

in the

with

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the

imposition of a certain sum on all vessels,

the form of a Tonnage Duty, that come to China for the pacrpores of Trade..._. I would

Lordship- to understand that ! do not recommend the adoption of this principle, and that I allude to it as the easiest, if not the only, mode of mating

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