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goot in looking after its duties does not damage the interests of Hongkong, & it is surprising how this feeling pervacres all classes creating a spirit of antagonism which, it is fortunate

for our good relations

with China is confined to the

narrow limis.

Colony..

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Possibly there

a small

there are or have

been cases of hardship in the seizure of junks & the collection of duties, but I have never

investigated

tect a complaint

yer

forwarded from the Fongtong

Goot, without discovering either

undoubted

proof of evasion of

duties or sufficient, at least, to

make it

very suspicions, but

be that as it m

may

there can

be no question altho' the

Comers

appear to ignore the

Jack, that the Chinese authorities are fully entitled to use what means they please to collect 390 their duties & if the Colonists Foreign or native find the mode adopted two restrictive to meet their views they have themselves to thank for

•for the

has

for the

Colony,

been for years a depêt

gale of arms & munition f

war, saltpetre, salt, & goods wh. have evaded duties; & often have I had the enquiry addressed to me by the High Authorities, cannot the sale of arms & munition of war at Hongkong be a toppect? The Colony arms our

pirates &

rebels & is a source of trouble

but my

✩

in

many

warp;

reply is

no it cannot be

that they

stopped - the result being

now stop it themselves

to the great indignation of

the

Jack