Englishmen in practicular_
and public
Noove doubly that this man has been greatly of corruption and rothery to a great-extent, in Hongkong. This, however, can never be proved He is too actful to permit any tangible peorps of his delinquences to exist A cringer to the " powers that be", he is extremely textannical to any
happen to get in his power_ In Houghing he has brought the British name and institutions inti utter disrepute -
he may
un
One
You may sead Gover wn afte Gover
nor to Houghing, but Came will tar him with the stick with which he is tarred himself _ in
he will tar
the same manner any official with whom he
Nay
"Come in contact _ The Judge
to which who tried the libel case.
evidually
I have made reference was tarred - Caine is hospitable he entertains freely, but those who
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can see a small distance into a
millstone can
easily perceuse that his hospitality is meuly
in
a means to an end and that that end is corruption.
Surrounded by the atmosphere of a free press, such a character as shine could not-exist for any length: of time, but the press is not free- Hongkong - it is enslaved to a greater degree
than in Austria - Asch is, Caine not only exists, but he holds, Ibelieve, the hourable situation of
has held, if I mistake
St
Goveran, and
not, eve.
of public appomat ment in the island from Gaoler, upwards -
I became acquainted with the effairs of Hongkong during a residence in the Colony
To conclude, I would say, that I wish an abler pen were employed to bring this subject under your Grace's notice, that I feel that in addressing your Grace upon it.
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