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perations of

the preventive

Service about to watch the coasts

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I + W of Horny Rong, the colony a risk of being to no small extent deprived.

I till hummerate first the possible objections to my scheme, And having disposed

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the

bhich will go far to diminishe junk drade by which the Breiti fotory is largely benefited.

If, as I propone di Camere Customs are allowed, in the Dutch fashion, to End the warehouses

of the

merchants for

the resident

our merchandise,

house or Ship in a hulle all opene brought to Hongkong, to certificate

Here,

7

all

bile state what I conceive to be

its sorantage.

not a

The Brit: public bile most likely exclaim agamist the admission of any

Brit . Excentive into The Baters of a Port : Colony. The Answer is that by refusing & admit this Executive, we cither support A Frade which inflicts sonions damage on the Customs Revenne of China, or we drive China to a course

Chill

carried b

a

cargo

Treaty post, and to boy duties on all ca landed on slipped by funks

сагда Hong Kong Carbour, there is no leason to look for any serious falling-off in the punk hrade of Hongkong. But if the baters outside Aughing are to be batched by a preventive service, not of foreigners,

And

overlianted within a short distance of the Colony, I have little doubt hat. a laye proportion of the pricks

bill

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