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afford to this Colony in Military Sanitary, and Commercial points of view, but chiefly for the

purpose of enabling the Colonial Government to maintain titer amongst the lawless population who have festablished themselves there, and who have hitherto been amenable to no practical control..

2.

Prese circumstances induced Lord Malmesbury in 1858 to instructio Lord Algin to endeavour to obtain

a cession of

the

promontor from

the Chinese Sovernment; but

as

the Despatch did not reach Lock Klgin until

after

the Treaty of

Lord Malesbury to Lord Algine

2? June 1858.

•

Tientsin had been signed, the proposal has remained in abeyance

until

now, while the wil has greatly increased owing

to the impurity

with which the inhabitants have

been enabled to

Carry

on

their

depredations..

3. Mr. Bruce with whom I have been in communication on has promised to avail himself of the first fitting opportunity

tie

eubject,

to negotiate with the chinese Government

meanwhile

for

د من

a cession, anx

eter towards this he

has authorized the occupation of Kowloong

as a

temporary excamping ground for the