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member of the Foreign Inspectorate would be a lawfully appointed agent but Mr Hennessy, I discovered only after my return from Canton would prefer

a Chinose Official of the regular service, who should be stationed in Hongkong

of

The

and not on the Chinese side of the Harbour, where I

would have put the brauch Foreign Inspectorate

Mr Hennessy's five propositions are without doubt much to be preferred to the Rules negotiated by Sui Brooke Robertson, if the Canton Government would accept them; and I shall try to ascertam at Peking how far theve acceptance may be possible; but I found the Governor General Lin determmed not to reopen the discussion down here at all. He fully appreciated, he said, Mr. Hennessy's watchfulness over the interests of Chria shewn by his enforcement of the local ordinances which regulate coolie emigration, or check veregular

Loi trading; but since the Rules

agreed to by

- Brooke Robertson and himself had been promulged,

Complaints had been comparatively few; the matter concerned the Hoppos administration rather than his own; and the trade to be laved being exclusively trade in Chinese juntes,

it could not properly be dealt with by a Foreign

inspectorate.

elly

own idea is that his intervention would

I have

be complained of by the Hoppo, who, as

before stated, is always a member of

a member of the Palace

establishment, and is sent to Canton not

to make his own

only fortune in a twelvemonth,

but to supply the Court with Jewels, articles of

bijouterie

auo

the like

typon

Ins

salary.

the could not do this

I shall communicate a Copy of this Despatch to Mr. Hennessy

I have fa

(0:) Thomas Francis Wade.

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