278

Cour

ance

the subsistence of the Capital and

ovinces - when misrepr

sentation no

Sovereign

Long

is led t

MA =

will of China - the assent

of the Emperor confirmed the treaty

which the po

L

n

of the Queen dictated-

to

Having this been admitted, or rather compelled for the first time in the history of the world, write the family of civilized nations, the Chinese are,

the rights, as

entitled to all.

e fully long

they fulfil the obligations of the com.

nection

escaped you

what

were not exclu

It will scarcely howe Lordship's Observation

too.

tcher er An

matched,

lusively instrumental

in contributing to hasten the peace.

The Partar

e as cestonished to see the almost (to him) inconceivable phe.

of clemency combined with military success, and moderation & good faith the companions Frestrain. rers of conquest - the could soarcely believe it, when he heard that our presoners were not only spars. £ - but

cured of thien

wounds & set at liberty; that private property send the public granaries thrown

w the hunger of his

open only to assung

w as respected,

own people! It almost hesitate to quote

cr

Chinesem.

maxim erem

illustration of Chinese feelings; but- one of their most respected d.

Los estrespected stages de Loired that those who subdue by force alone do not seduce the heart;

(9)

while those who sub due by benevolen

ain the hearts of the subdued, and their

ubmission is sincers. of Earnestly

hope that the continuance

2.7

my long

pe

of the fewer remain a standing confir.

nation of the text. -

Best it still remains

for us to sex prise the Chinese by shew-

:ing them the Mira les of peac

of War - The Schoolmaster is in steeds

"abroad, and mos

ZA. A pi

his lef=

: sons to the doors of those who never yet

There is areal British

left ho

Colony (no Porting

on the

planted on

counterfeit ) threshold of China.

mede

flourish

There they may dee commerce :ing in the absence of restrictions, - piro - Sperty &trenson secure under the pro-

tection of equal laws, unit;

word,

all the best fruits of sexince & civili.

Zatio

ou breinsflanted direct from. the European heady

headquarters - The

goad

ov evil we may de there will, by the Law of inevitable necessity,

whom ourselves. -

• act exption

ze -

this rattan ainore than

rather

10th Dec 1842. aylar since I

$

surde de

fo

to the Foreign sffice a ettemorandum, in which after adventing to the ill.

conduct of British subjects in China, I cudded that "the very highest powers that can be legally or constitutionally delegated to a func=

ationenar

at duct

be conferred

watch

De...

distance & hould or the officer who is to

noi at Iholi:

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