and exposed towns to make the prompt payment of the expenses of the Expedition as certain
at an event in March to be accomplished. and all the possible proofs of her Majesty's Arms remembered, it may be thought difficult neither to be gratified with (even if refrain from making the Court shall still signify its intentions) to stay its hands; signifying that it was restrained by motives of humanity and that there would be cessation of hostility, whilst there was a peaceful spirit on the other side, and whilst the people were suffered to carry on commerce without obstruction
The experience of every day has strengthened the conviction that the most advantageous terms of Peace which can be concluded with this Court under present circumstances, will be the treaty that contains the least number of stipulations.
The Chinese, My Lord, like all other Asiatic Powers, would take advantage of the reduction of the force
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