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Mr. Bridges' observations on the subject matter.

The intricacy of legislation presses incessantly on my attention not only as Governor of Hong Kong but also as Superintendent of British Trade in China, in consequence of multitudinous abuses which had grown up, and which were aggravated by the disorganized state and the confusion produced by all those discordant elements in which I had been directed by Her Majesty's Government to preserve a strict neutrality as between political belligerents - while it was frequently impossible to distinguish the marauder and the pirate from those who claimed to be rebels acting only to overthrow the Manchu Government.

And the population of this Colony, from its very nature and from the universality of secret associations, could not fail to be engaged in partisanship likely to compromise "the British name and the British Flag". The difficulty of deciding who is, and who ought either by right or expediency to be deemed, a British Subject in a Colony, a large part of whose population is constantly shifting and in which there have been established only a few years, is a difficulty not only...

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Mr. Bridges' observations on the subject matter. The intricacy of legislation presses incessantly on my attention not only as Governor of Hong Kong but also as Superintendent of British Trade in China, in consequence of multitudinous abuses which had grown up, and which were aggravated by the disorganized state and the confusion produced by all those discordant elements in which I had been directed by Her Majesty's Government to preserve a strict neutrality as between political belligerents - while it was frequently impossible to distinguish the marauder and the pirate from those who claimed to be rebels acting only to overthrow the Manchu Government. And the population of this Colony, from its very nature and from the universality of secret associations, could not fail to be engaged in partisanship likely to compromise "the British name and the British Flag". The difficulty of deciding who is, and who ought either by right or expediency to be deemed, a British Subject in a Colony, a large part of whose population is constantly shifting and in which there have been established only a few years, is a difficulty not only... Page 210 (No further text is available in the original prompt to continue proofreading) Page 210

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Mr. Bridges observations subject matter.

LIND

the

attention

The rcccuity of Legislation preced inccistibly on my not only as bovernor of Hong Kong but Alif Superintendent of Britich

ILA

Trade in China, in consequense of multitudinous abuses which hat

grown up,-

and which

were

aggravated

state 17 Chinn

by the disorganized state and the confusion produced by all those discordant clements in which

I had been directed by Her Majestyp Gremment to preserve a strict neutrality as between political belligerents - while it was

frequently

impossible to distinguish the

N1.

210

marander and the pirate from those

sirate of from who claimed to be rebels secting only

to overthrow the Manchon Government. and the population of this Colony

from its very nature and from the universality of scent associations could not fail of being engaged partizanship likely to compromise "the British name and the British

Flag- The difficulty of deciding who is,_ and who ought either by right or expediency to be deemed, an British Subject

Colony, a large part of whore population is constantly shifting and in which have been established only a few

years,

is a

in a

difficulty not only

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