Another class of the population of the Settlement, are the natives who have in various ways made enough money to get along without work, but who seldom leave the Settlement, and are ever ready to cry out about foreign aggression whenever there is any talk of extending its limits. These gentlemen of educated leisure, who are so earnest in protesting against the enlargement of the Settlement ax the evidence of foreign rapacity. appear to take no concern in the affairs of their government, and to view indifferently the military tents of other nations pitched in nearly every geographical division of their country. They live in the Settlement to claim the benefit of foreign protection, but are not remarkable in their appreciation of it.
Another class of residents are composed of native business men, and the industry of this class, in conjunction with foreign busine men, have made the port of Shanghai what it is to-day. grading it as one of the greatest trading ports of the world. No foreign resident of the Bettlement has ever objected to the native "business man residing and carrying on business in its limits, but on the contrary has extended to him a welcome, as a pot ential agent in the promotion of international commerce,
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