CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 498

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16.

The Cast Guard House

must under any.

circumstances of War

Peace, be are important-

Military with the safety and discipline. of the Cantonment- and the establishment of a Market or other Public

Post in connexion

Ground in its immediate contact, where the

assembling of large

bodies

legal

of people

will be

and customary,

must prove both inconvenient

and d

dangerous-particularly

when the overwhelming.

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proportion of the Chinese to the Curopean population in Victoria is considered, and that they

are a low class of People that

will ever look.

upow

the

or more

Curopeans as intruders, whom they are pleased to tolerate so long as profitable, properly speaking so long only as they are kept under proper control by a military and Naval power, superior

to their

tww.

It will be

my duty to transmit copies of this Correspondence to the suspector General of Fortifications to

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