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"Honghong, that will benefit by it; it is the English Colony of HongKong, and not, our French Colony of Saigon, that the trade with the interior of China will pivot!

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# It seems, therefore, by the admission of the French Authorities themselves, that they are ready to fight for an "idea", confessing that "the cost will be theirs while the profit will belong to others!" "The idea" thus described by M. du Cailland is: "France will create for herself on the shores of the China sea that Colonial Empire which Dupleix dreamed of for her on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

It will be remembered that, in 1746, Dupleix, the Governor of Pondicherry, and Labourdonnais, the Governor of the Isle of France, (now Mauritius), who is described by Macaulay as "a man of eminent talents and virtues," - took Madras from the English; and, but for their own mutual jealousies; for the want of support on the part of the French Government; and, above all, but for the genius of Clive, would probably...

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233 "Honghong, that will benefit by it; it is the English Colony of HongKong, and not, our French Colony of Saigon, that the trade with the interior of China will pivot! 4 # It seems, therefore, by the admission of the French Authorities themselves, that they are ready to fight for an "idea", confessing that "the cost will be theirs while the profit will belong to others!" "The idea" thus described by M. du Cailland is: "France will create for herself on the shores of the China sea that Colonial Empire which Dupleix dreamed of for her on the shores of the Indian Ocean. It will be remembered that, in 1746, Dupleix, the Governor of Pondicherry, and Labourdonnais, the Governor of the Isle of France, (now Mauritius), who is described by Macaulay as "a man of eminent talents and virtues," - took Madras from the English; and, but for their own mutual jealousies; for the want of support on the part of the French Government; and, above all, but for the genius of Clive, would probably...
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"Honghong, that will benefit by it; it is the English Colony of HongKong, and

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on the

not, our Franch Colony of Saigon,

that

the trade with the interior of China

will pivot!

4

#

It seems, therefore,

by the admission of the French

Authorities themselves, that they are

ready to fight for

an

"idea", confessing

that "the cost will be theirs while the

#

"profit will belong to others ! "The "ikea"

thus described

is t

by

M. du Cailland-

: "France will create for herself on the shores of the China sea that Colonial

Cempire

"Empire which Dupleix dreamed of

for her on the shores of the Indian

#

Ocean. It will be remembered that, 1

in 1746, Dupleix, the Governor of

Yondicherry, and Labourdonnais, the Governor of the Isle of France, (now

#

Mauritius), who is described by- Macaulay a

ad

"a

man

of eminent

talents and virtues," - took Madras

from the English; and, but for their own mutual jealousies; for the want of support on the part of the Frenah Government; and, above all, but for the genius of Clive, would

proba:

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