SUPPLEMENT
No. 53, OF THE FRIEND OF CHINA, 23rd MARCH, 1843
THE CHINESE TREATY. We propose to examine briefly the conditions of the Chinese Treaty, and to offer some observations on its probable results, We feel the more disposed to do this, because we perceive that there are abroad some rather wild and even dangerous speculations of the subject..
There are but three portions of the Treaty which it is necessary to adverf to, viz, the pecuniary contribu, tion, the strangements for the extension of our trade
Include the opening of new ports and the cession, of Hongkong, and what reates in our future relation with the Chinese
phy a cont
dollars
paid
sterling, but we
British Treasur
meet with msults and mortifications which, sooner or later, would lead to war, and the war, sooner or later, o conquest. We do not wish his despatches to be wholly at the mercy of such supreme tricksters as the Chinese, in a land journey of 1200 miles, nor himself without the possibility of getting an answer to them under eight months, if he got one at all and last, al. though certainly least, we dislike an enditure of 20,000 # year, which, to a certainty such a mission would out hose who recommnand
bout
Toraj Burmah, nor even to think
ed
that S
has exported the largely, and, in particular years, to the extent of two millions of pounds, one of the great griefs of the Chinese Government, and a principal cause of its violete, of the war which it entailed on itself, and of the punishment which ita vanity, folly, and injustice have received.
The benefits ich will accrue from our improved -- commercial relni ons
will chiefly, consist in
ter part of! system? to?
for
der the old Luge of from
the new
·OUE
after allowing
the war, and as
ich more
captured opigm,
leave a net
Erchegher of three millions.
rtaini ecommend to his Son
Chinese Treaty, and as he beffre
and turned up hit |
the opium war, he
ven to more pious interjectio honest éves, in the same trecti It results
After all 11 a convenient « sciences, or one to ens, ami su two purposes--one conscience another to pocket its produce
one conscience for poisoning wells, pockeing dollars-one conscience
third-part of the human race—for other for taking six millions of same large portion of mar
nicknamed opium
at the same time to be altogether forgott for the incarceration of an Ambassador, mont of British merebants, and the tread
confiscation, of their proper
chequer and th
deed, that has done any one of these Now for the extension of our trå
have had a direct intercours one province of China, containi of people this province, not. separated from the po
range of mountains,
able canals. No
five ports and five severy millions the empire in and them traverred by navigable river o finest of the world commercial wealth ern to its eastern a Then there a our trade ar Government
venture to
an
the
coutral emp
which has guided
tters will not allow || aging the cons which international
perceive sanguine enough to be.
the Chinese
ved, can produce
can consume, but the tea now, on the principle encour tion of à few rich and disc
Six pennies worth and ade to pay the same
ing that of the six shillings worth must not be amount of tex
valuo, and
Common
recoun
gense.
Bystem
on the neithe
both ar
were under tk
thead
Three short words,
y will not all right, and Sir. Robert, who has, in the case, no party interests to court, can with a stroke of his pen and let us
rectify the
trust that he will be wise enough to do it.– Examiner.
for
tion of the Gospel
́a inismon at
ecial fund for that