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"Colony. Speaking generally therefore i

"

I see

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last remark, it

is the

only

" no objection to continuing in the Governor

hands the power proposed in the "Ordinance for banishing, watching

" and controlling the criminal decentes

"

of the population of the Colony, provided

these towers are exercised with due

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discretion." And.

کوت

again :

the

Colony under your Government

Secretary of State to Governor of Hongkong he 3-

( i. e . Hong Kong. ) has been hittier to

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-arded in this / i. e. the Colonial) Office,

regarded

"1

ao a

· place per se, to be dealt with on

principles which might not be sanctioned

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y.

elsewhere"

In confirmuation of the

last

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4 way

be observed that Gibraltar,

other possession of the British ~~~

Crown, the position of which is strictly

analogow to that of Hongkong.

have pointed out on

Hongkong

in

For, as I

· previous occasions,

like Gibraltar, is not a Colony.

any proper sense

utterly

of the teren . It is a

diximilar from the great Euglish

settlements in Australasia and America;?

it corresponds neither to the Colony

(2novnis) of the Greeks,

nor to the Colony

( Colonia ) of the Romans, which latter

to

name (as Adam Smith pointed out? in his "Health of Nations") is equivalent to the old English term "Plantation."

Rather