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me in this view and in

in the

necessity of

taking especial precautions against the abuses incident to a corrupt

administration and underpaid officials.

the

Notwithstanding

strong feeling by the expressed therefore the depulations of the

on this

Chamber of Commerce and the Mercantile communities of & longtong, to day subject; I am convinced it is by

means alone that

t any satisfactory

any.

permanent settlement of existing

differences and

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conflicting interests can

ted. There

be

effected.

is

nothing

ی اور کیچ کر

my

opinion in the position of Kong Hong

do a

British Colony

کنی کے مرمرم

Free Port

which should prcolude the possibily of making suck arrangements in

accordance with International Law and usage,

which shall, in Lerd Granvilles words,

protect the commerce of the Colony which is legiționate ant de scourage that which is contraband. We may differ as to the

proportion which the one bears to the other,

but there can

scarcely be any divergence. of opinion between the Governor of Mongtong

and H. M. Minister, both servants

Crown and under the orders

Government,

of

The

the same.

as to the simperative obligation.

of using every

exertion to attain this

double end, and the

of securing

necessity if possible both. Looking to the rentoubled

-right of the Chinese Government to protect= itself as Lord Granville observes, by thi methods from the smuggling which

own