all bear witness to this _ With
every temptation that
to make Opiums.
already
may
exist
aby's at of tro- ration at Hongkong (aft mit has
been taxed in Indice) – if it can be sheen that she trade in that drugh.
4 flourished
and always.
most when left to itself in its seri floating warehouses; if
our opium merchants would naturally prefer anuntaxed trade out of Hongkong taxed trade in it; if the tender.
=
to a
at least, of the tax would be to
make ol
brera de ouh
duty,
AAAAI
elb
as the Chinese protribition; if its
still worse tendenèses.
would be to
violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the late treaty of "peace & friendship, and to excite jealousy Villwill by
intenancing
that string at Loon, in that very
openly c
their e
co
very ment which
from them; if
meand dis
we
settle
had just wrested
Ave Care
cover
arry
by comy
other
dovencR
of Colonial revenue, - why incur the "Odium, sines pretis, criminis ?
ed in a former
Trejoiced
de claration of Sir Robert Peel in Parliament that it was not in.
tended to countenance Opiumvat Hong Kong, any
the five Ports. - Lette the first im- pulses of conscience in individer cals, these first wie uns of policy
sche
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often the best tourest guides. If 280 can be shown that, in the present instance, the honestum & the
Wile
vulg
would be united, and non pre
dieney
exf
corrcand in our
not countenansing Exhiums Hong Kong, why
other trade dvorce
this,
crcrisult
еди
?
verrr
render all the
uggling by admitting
ate Chi
ment by drawing from it under their very
The extremely ne
low rates of the tarif
Reasonable &
annexed to the
treaty & unely end it? the Chinese government to all it's duties in the
fair Commerce.
Somebody is said.
to have oldered in
HongKong,
Ad.....
Letter from
that the moderation of
the tariff duties, though amational
levefit to England,
blow &
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heavy
hoke
I leone it
reat did couragement to
agre
the smugy
not only
the
ling trade -
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thak
for credit, but the good.
government & perm of Hong Kong depend ofs minggling.
O
ent prosperity.
C
the absence
for.
I and cr
would fain look fant- in Hongking here after drawing itself the trade bith onto carried ou
at Canton. In theaven, or an un
advented to Frema wrked
Bast
alme
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