CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 21

The number of Chinese who have quitted the Colony is variously citimated

ut from Inventy to Thirty

Thousand-

very...

many of the Crown Tencents have abondared.

their Shops - Marchouses and

thise who remain are

houses and

very unwilling to pay

their rents . The flight of the holder of

the Oprium Monopoly.

is announced) -

Happily, the prosperous State of eur finances enables us for the prevent to bear up against then unverse circumstanur but I fear if the Chinen

are not made

to pay the penalty of these hostile assaults

upon the Colony, they may at any

be repeated.

time

I have the hover to be,

with the highest respect,

Ser,

Your Most Obedient. Humble Servant, Schubamirz

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