CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6] — Page 237

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Houghing remonstrated with the Deputy Magistrate of Now loon and urged

Nowloon

clear the peninsula of this poperlation but all with no

him to

dangerous

effect.

Their

contempt for Authority may be judgen of from the fact that in August 1832 they actually took the fort of Kowloon.

Thus the injury they occasion both to British

and Chinese interests is very great, and it becomes impossible for the British Authorities to see their people any longer

exposed

to

so serious a Misance. A

remedy mush therefore be at once.

· provided,

and those on whom responsibility in the matter

devolves must act up to their obligations

of two

The difficulty is only to be met in one

ways

either the Chinese authorities.

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must send

officers

and troops to the spot

to expel the present bad population, and

must moreover constantly maintain there

a

competent force; or, if it be inconvenient to them to take measures of this nature they

should mark out a boundary

and Cede

the ground within it to the British Government

in the same manner as Hongkong, when it

would be in the power of the latter to exercise complete jurisdiction

diction over the place, and

to take all the measures they may deem.

necessary for securing order among the - population.

His Excellency the Governor General

being unable however to arrange for the

• cession of the peninsula without previous

to his Government

Government can only undertake

reference