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Student-Interpreters appointed by The Foreign Office. That is, they would be under the supervision of the British Minister; their studies would be directed by the Chinese Secretary of Legation; and they would have facilities, unattainable elsewhere, for acquiring a knowledge of the complicated forms and etiquette of official intercourse and correspondence with the Chinese, as also of the general character and objects of the Chinese Government, and of Chinese diplomacy; a knowledge which would often prove of much practical advantage in this Colony.
4. Again, it should not be forgotten that, at present, as will probably be the case for a long time to come, Foreigners resident at Canton are generally within measurable distance of being massacred by the fierce Cantonese populace, unless they live in the English settlement and under the cannon of English gunboats. It will be easily felt that this is not a state of affairs calculated to
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