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MONOPOLY VERSUS FREE TRADE.
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But the spirit which moved the British Parliament to wrench asunder the shackles in which British trade had been kept for two long centuries by the East India Company, was the potent spirit of free trade, and in this general free trade movement we see above the dark horizon the first streak of light heralding the advent of the future free port of Hongkong.