Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "穿鼻草約" in Chinese language version.
You have obtained the Cession of Hong Kong, a barren island with hardly a house upon it; and even this Cession as it is called, seems to me, from the conditions with which it is clogged, not to be a cession of the Sovereignty of the Island, which could only be made by the signature of the Emperor, but to be a permission to us to make a Settlement there, upon the same footing on which the Portuguese have an establishment at Macao.Now it seems obvious that Hong Kong will not be the Mart of Trade,any more than Macao is so; that the Trade will still continue at Canton ;and unless you shall have obtained in your further Negotiations, all the securities which we demanded for our Residents in China, matters will remain practically just as they have been.
