TNAG-2596-FCO40-3784-Appointment-of-Chris-Patten-as-new-Governor-of-Hong-Kong--Ap-1992 — Page 82

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DRAFT INAUGURATION SPEECH BY THE RT HON CHRISTOPHER PATTEN

As I prepare to accept the duties and burdens of office

as Governor, I cannot help but reflect what our forebears

would make of this occasion, of this city today.

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Today Hong Kong

rudely described by Lord Palmerston

as "this barren island with hardly a house upon it"

is one

of the greatest cities on Earth.

It is a very special city,

a city made great not by its natural, God-given advantages,

not by the accidents of geography or of politics, but because by

of the greatest asset of them all the enterprise, the

energy, the vitality, the industry of its six million

citizens, underpinned by a foundation of sound administration

and the rule of law./ Hong Kong is, in the modern sense, one

of the wnders of the world. Undaunted by the obstacles in

your way, you, the people of Hong Kong have the

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